Criminal Psychology : a Beginner's Guide

development. With such rapid and large-scale development and implementation of these programmes within some criminal justice sys ...

makers was that offender rehabilitation was not a feasible venture. After the rehabilitative focus of the 1950s and 1960s, the 1 ...

The application of this type of analysis to the large number of available small studies showed that the treatment of offenders c ...

the rehabilitation of offenders 155 3.Targeting of dynamic risk factors: The programme should target criminogenic factors (those ...

In order to facilitate this process in England and Wales (and now in other countries, such as Australia, which have since fol- l ...

sample under investigation. Studies with smaller samples of participants are therefore less likely to detect any effect of treat ...

types of offenders than with others. For example, it stands to reason that an offender who has been caught committing a resi- de ...

The risk principle states that those offenders who are more likely to reoffend, or, in other words, are at a higher risk of reof ...

address the criminogenic needs of the offenders that attend it. But what is meant by criminogenic needs? It is often the case th ...

their lives are likely to be contributing to the con- tinuation of their offending behaviour. It is these criminogenic needs tha ...

programmes is becoming better rooted in research findings and increasingly practice is being based on the evidence that is avail ...

(a stranger) looking at them, it may be the case that the offender thinks that the other male is goading them or ‘offering them ...

another from the Universities of Leicester and Liverpool. Both research groups reported significant reductions in the reconvicti ...

aimed at offenders who have displayed violent offending or aggression related problem behaviour. ART was originally designed by ...

of those in attendance on the programme and to help them choose appropriate skills for the situations that they may find themsel ...

people drop out from programmes? Are the right individuals tar- geted for the programmes? Could altering the dosage of these pro ...

the management and treatment of sex offenders This chapter will look at how criminal psychology helps us under- stand some of th ...

trust (it is unlawful for people who work with children, say in youth services, care homes or schools, to have sex with anyone i ...

be an indication that people still find it difficult to believe that women can be sex offenders too. Victim surveys, for example ...

the management and treatment of sex offenders 171 the public, such as neighbours, will be notified. Active notifica- tion means ...