Rehabilitation and Treatment of Offenders

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms and concepts related to offender rehabilitation, risk assessment, and treatment approaches, including the RNR framework, specific treatment targets, and cultural considerations.

Risk Need Responsibility (RNR) Framework

A rehabilitation framework used internationally, based on matching treatment intensity to offender risk, targeting factors related to re-offending, and delivering treatment in a way that supports learning.

Risk Principle

Matching treatment intensity to the offender's risk of re-offending; high-intensity treatment for high-risk offenders and low-intensity for low-risk offenders.

Need Principle

Targeting treatment towards factors directly related to the offender's potential for re-offending or also known as criminogenic needs.

Responsibility Principle

Delivering treatment in a style and method that supports learning, considering learning styles, cultural needs, and barriers to treatment.

Intensity (in Treatment)

how long treatment lasts, how often meetings take place (number of sessions), and how deeply the treatment delves into the offender's background and offense chain

Therapeutic Community

A separate wing within a prison specifically set up around a treatment program for intensive rehabilitation.

Structured Risk Assessment Tools

Tools used to assess the risk of re-offending, involving a list of items known to increase risk, which are rated to provide a risk score.

Static Risk Factors

Risk factors that cannot be changed through intervention, such as age at release or criminal history.

Dynamic Risk Factors

Risk factors that can change through intervention, such as antisocial attitudes or substance abuse.

Criminogenic Needs

Factors that are directly related to the risk of committing crime, (i.e. gaining employment skills.)

Sexual Deviancy

Fantasies or fetishes related to offending, such as those involving children or non-consensual sex.

Emotional Identification with Children

When offenders feel children are safer or more appropriate as intimate partners than adults

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

A common therapeutic approach for offenders that focuses on developing skills to address risk factors and promote pro-social behavior.

Maori Focus Units

Rehabilitation units within prisons that embed the RNR principles within a Te Ao Maori framework, incorporating Maori philosophy, values, and knowledge.

Relapse Prevention

Identifying high-risk situations for offenders upon release and developing strategies to avoid these situations.

Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCLR)

A tool used to measure psychopathic traits, which are often included in risk assessment protocols.

Antisocial Personality Disorder

The closest diagnosis to psychopathy

Family-Centered Therapy

Therapy approach, particularly for young offenders, that focuses on working with the family to improve boundary setting and parenting skills.

Multi-Systemic Therapy

A therapeutic approach focused on working with families to address boundary setting and parenting skills in order to address youth behaviors.

Vocational/Education-Based Treatment

Helping offenders develop qualifications and employment skills to reduce their risk of re-offending.