Risk, needs, responsivity: In action or inaction?

DOES CORRECTIONAL TREATMENT WORK? A CLINICALLY RELEVANT AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY INFORMED META‐ANALYSIS *

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Classification for Effective Rehabilitation: Rediscovering Psychology

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Drug treatment services for adult offenders: The state of the state

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Evidence-based treatment practices for drug-involved adults in the criminal justice system

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Understanding and Preventing Criminal Recidivism Among Adults With Psychotic Disorders

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Predicting Recidivism for Released State Prison Offenders

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Screening, Assessment, and Referral Practices in Adult Correctional Settings

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The National Criminal Justice Treatment Practices survey: Multilevel survey methods and procedures

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Research Update on Adult Drug Courts

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Adapting judicial supervision to the risk level of drug offenders: discharge and 6-month outcomes from a prospective matching study.

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AN EFFECTIVENESS TRIAL OF CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT IN A FELONY PREADJUDICATION DRUG COURT

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The general responsivity principle in community supervision: the importance of probation officers using cognitive intervention techniques and its influence on recidivism

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The Plight of Providing Appropriate Substance Abuse Treatment Services to Offenders: Modeling the Gaps in Service Delivery

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Results of a pilot randomized controlled trial of buprenorphine for opioid dependent women in the criminal justice system

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When is an offender not an offender?

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Even a Little Bit Helps

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Real-world use of the risk–need–responsivity model and the level of service/case management inventory with community-supervised offenders.

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Adaptive Interventions in Drug Court

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Effects of Pre-release Services on Access to Behavioral Health Treatment after Release from Prison

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Integrated Trauma Treatment in Drug Court: Combining EMDR Therapy and Seeking Safety

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Reciprocal associations between housing instability and youth criminal legal involvement: a scoping review

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A Time-Varying Model of Risk for Predicting Recidivism Among Women Offenders Over 3 Years Following Their Release From Jail

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Selection Processes in Prison-Based Treatment Referrals: A Street-Level Bureaucracy Perspective

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The role of drug courts in promoting desistance and recovery: a merging of therapy and accountability

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Can we avoid reductionism in risk reduction?

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The effectiveness of probation supervision towards reducing reoffending: A Rapid Evidence Assessment

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The Role of Motivation in Predicting Addiction Treatment Entry Among Offenders With Substance Use Disorders Under Probation Supervision

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Targeting dispositions for drug-involved offenders: A field trial of the Risk and Needs Triage (RANT)™

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Translating "What Works" into Sustainable Everyday Practice: Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation

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Community investment interventions as a means for decarceration: A scoping review

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Screening and Assessment: An Evidence-Based Process for the Management and Care of Adult Drug-Involved Offenders

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To imprison or not to imprison: an analytics model for drug courts

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Employing the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model and predicting successful completion in an alternative drug court program: Preliminary findings from the Orleans Parish Drug Court

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Enhancing Residential Treatment for Drug Court Participants

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Building effective service delivery mechanisms for justice-involved individuals: an under-researched area

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When Frontloading Backfires: Exploring the Impact of Outsourcing Correctional Interventions on Mechanisms of Social Control

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Judicial Supervision of Drug-Abusing Offenders

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Strategies for Administering Rewards and Sanctions

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Needs, Services Received, and Outcomes of Adolescents and Young Adults in Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Treatment

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Patterns of Change in Dynamic Risk Factors over Time in Youth Offenders

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Trajectories of Justice Involved Youth: Changing Risk and Protective Factors for Violence

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Current State of EBP in the Community Corrections Field

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Development of the California Static Risk Assessment (CSRA): Recidivism Risk Prediction in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

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Precursors to probation and parole agent intent to send informational, emotional, and esteem social support messages to female clients

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Producing criminality: The expanding power of crime analysts

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Cross-cultural generalizability of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP) in South Korea

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Precursors to Probation and Parole Agent Communication Patterns with Female Clients

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Adult and Juvenile Drug Courts

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The Impact Of Employment On Probationer Recidivism

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The impact of cognitive-behavioral therapy on the recidivism of high risk probationers: Results from a randomized trial

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Typology of substance using offenders of IPV: violence and substance use outcomes

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COVID-19 and the New Pains of Imprisonment

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Parole Officer Decision-Making Before Parole Revocation: Why Context Is Key When Delivering Correctional Services

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Technology Transfer of Evidence-based Practice in Substance Abuse Treatment in Community Corrections Settings

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Evidence-Based Implementation Agenda

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Unmet Needs: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Mental Health Issues as Pathways to Recidivism in Justice-Involved Youth

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Planning for the Future of the US Correctional System

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Using Discrete-Event Simulation Modeling to Estimate the Impact of RNR Program Implementation on Recidivism Levels

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Facilitating Pathways Out of Crime: The Role of Strengths in Risk Assessment and Rehabilitation among Justice-Involved Youth

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The Role of Perceived Social Support in Explanation of Positive and Negative Syndrome in Patients with Schizophrenia

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Impacts of COVID-19 on Drug Treatment Court Operations: Lessons Learned Through Normalization Process Theory

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Are Operations Backed by Best Practices in American Problem-Solving Courts?

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Parole: “What Works” Is Still Under Construction

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Clinical and Criminal Justice Outcomes in the Jail Diversion and Trauma Recovery (JDTR) Program

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STATEWIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROJECT: DEVELOPING STATEWIDE ASSESSMENT STANDARDS FOR DRUG COURT PARTICIPANTS IN MICHIGAN

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Rehabilitation and Treatment Programming

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Criminal Justice Interventions

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Helping Ex-Offenders Lead Reintegrated Lives

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An Evaluation of Clackamas County's Transition Center Using Propensity Score Modeling

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Specialized Drug Court Participation Across Offender Subtypes

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Risk-Needs-Responsivity-Informed Approaches to Batterer Intervention Treatment

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Key Considerations for Pre-arrest Diversion Programs

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A Case Study in Gaps in Services for Drug-Involved Offenders

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Philosophy programs in prison and rehabilitative outcomes – A scoping review

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Legal Advocacy - Art or Science

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Risk, need, and responsivity in juveniles.

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Risk-Need-Responsivity, Application to Female Offenders

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Risk-Need-Responsivity, Principles of

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The Good Lives Model and the Risk Need Responsivity Model

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The Recent Past and Near Future of Risk and/or Need Assessment

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