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Self-reported and LS/CMI measured risk factors: Relation to RNR adherence and criminal recidivism
2013
Abstract
Our criminal justice system has struggled to identify models that effectively reduce the risk of recidivism among offenders. Increasingly, the role of risk/need assessments in offender rehabilitation has been described, and the results of these assessments are frequently used for intervention planning or classification decision-making. As such, this study had two aims. First, this study aimed to examine the effectiveness of the risk-need-responsivity model in reducing recidivism among a sample of N=71 male offenders at a reentry facility. A measure was developed to assess adherence to the RNR model by identifying the match between the risk level and criminogenic needs identified by the Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (LS/CMI), and services received during participation in reentry programming. Rearrest data were available for one year and 16-month follow-up periods. Analyses revealed that there was no significant relationship between level of RNR adherence and rearrest. This relationship remained non-significant when controlling for overall risk level. Second, this study explored the relationship between assessment-identified and self-identified risk factors, with the aim of determining whether level of insight into ones own risk factors is associated with recidivism . A subsample of 65 participants was included in analyses. Results revealed that the level of concordance between LS/CMI-identified and self-identified risk factors was not significantly associated with recidivism. Although risk level was tested as a moderator of this relationship, no significant interaction effect was detected. The implications that these results have for intervention planning are discussed.
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- Title
- Self-reported and LS/CMI measured risk factors
- Creators
- Stephanie Brooks HollidayKirk HeilbrunDrexel University. College of Arts and Sciences
- Number of pages
- viii, 87 leaves
- Resource Type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychology
- Identifiers
- 991019203320804721