Handbook on risk and need assessment : theory and practice / Faye S. Taxman, [editor].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taxman, Faye S., editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

The ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing handbook series ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corrections--United States.

Corrections.

Recidivism--United States.

Recidivism.

Prison sentences--United States.

Prison sentences.

United States.

Criminals--United States.

Criminals.

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1. The value and importance of risk and need assessment (RNA) in corrections & sentencing : an overview of the handbook / Faye S. Taxman with Amy Dezember

pt. I History of RNA. 2. Risk and needs assessment in probation and parole : the persistent gap between promise and practice / William D. Burrell

3. The research director perspective on the design, implementation, and impact of risk assessment and offender classification systems in USA prisons : a national survey / James M. Byrne and Amy Dezember

pt. II Methodological Issues in Creating and Validating RNA. 4. Static risk factors and criminal recidivism / Robert Brame

5. Accuracy of risk assessment in corrections population management : where's the value added? / James Hess and Susan Turner

6. Improving the performance of risk assessments : a case study on the prediction of sexual offending among juvenile offenders / KiDeuk Kim and Grant Duwe

7. Using predictive analytics and machine learning to improve the accuracy and performance of juvenile justice risk assessment instruments : the Florida case study / Ira M. Schwartz, Peter York, Mark Greenwald, Ana Ramos-Hernandez and Lisa Feeley

8. An alternative scientific paradigm for criminological risk assessment : closed or open systems, or both? / Tim Brennan

pt. III Dynamic Risk Factors and Responsivity Toward Different Populations. 9. Risk, need, and responsivity in a criminal lifestyle / Glenn D. Walters

10. Gender-responsive risk and need assessment : implications for the treatment of justice-involved women / Emily J. Salisbury, Breanna Boppre and Bridget Kelly

11. Advancing sexual offender risk assessment : standardized risk levels based on psychologically meaningful offender characteristics / R. Karl Hanson and Guy Bourgon

12. Incorporating procedural justice and legitimacy into the RNR model to improve risk-need assessment / Katherine Ginsburg Kempany and Kimberly A. Kaiser

13. Adaption of risk tools to employment context / Garina Siwach and Shawn D. Bushway

14. Exploring how to measure criminogenic needs : five instruments and no real answers / Brittany Via, Amy Dezember and Faye S. Taxman

pt. IV RNA Implementation and Practice. 15. Customizing criminal justice assessments / Zachary Hamilaton, Elizabeth Thompson Tollefsbol, Michael Campagna and Jacqueline van Wormer

16. Risk/need assessment tools and the criminal justice bureaucrat : reconceptualizing the frontline practitioner / Joel Miller and Sarah Trocchio

17. Risky needs : risk entangled needs in probation supervision / Danielle S. Rudes, Jill Viglione and Kimberly S. Meyer

pt. V Special Issues Regarding the Conceptualization for RNA. 18. Purpose and context matters : creating a space for meaningful dialogues about risk and need / Kelly Hannah-Moffat

19. Human rights, risk and need : the right to rehabilitation, and the right to fairness / Mary Rogan.

Notes:

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Handbook on risk and need assessment.

ISBN:

9781317402831

1317402839

OCLC:

962752462

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