Define RNR principles and their relevance to treatment of adult sex offenders
What will be an ideal response?
• Stands for risk, needs, responsivity.
• Treatment based on these principles has been shown effective for a wide range of criminal offenders.
• For each sex offender, the therapist must assess risk factors that are predictive of future offending. Examples are the offender's age, relationships with others, and extent of prior offending. Risks are both static (e.g., age of onset of offending) and dynamic (e.g., quality of relationship with a significant person). Therapists work primarily with the dynamic risks.
• The therapist also must consider and address criminogenic needs…these are features of the offender that make it likely that he or she will participate in future crimes. Examples of criminogenic needs are emotional congruence with children or chronic substance misuse.
• Finally the therapist assesses the individual's responsivity to treatment. If the person is not motivated to change or other factors place limits on the likelihood of successful treatment (e.g., insufficient time in the treatment program), the treatment will likely not have positive effects.
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a) reviewing developmental milestones found in baby books. b) asking parents or others who know the child to report the age at which a specific problem first occurred. c) reviewing recorded incidents of a particular problem. d) calculating the average number of aggressive incidents from age three to age seven.
Which of the following statements is consistent with the data displayed in the table?
A. Nine percent of the respondents strongly disagreed with the three statements. B. Most respondents are undecided about their agreement with the three statements. C. Fourteen percent of respondents who agree would support tougher enforcement. D. Forty percent of respondents would strongly support juvenile curfews.
______ is a sentencing goal that aims to protect the public by removing the offender from society.
A. Retribution B. Rehabilitation C. Restitution D. Incapacitation
Due to the fact that the ANOVA fails to indicate which group(s) stands out from the rest, researchers must conduct ______.
A. t tests B. F tests C. post hoc tests D. none of these