Risk, Needs, and rehabilitation Models Flashcards
(10 cards)
What does RNR stand for in offender management?
Risk–Need–Responsivity.
What is the Good Lives Model (GLM)?
A strengths-based model aiming to help individuals achieve personal goals and primary human goods.
Why is a risk-focused approach often criticised?
It lacks individualisation, ignores rehabilitation as a goal, and conflicts with desistance theory.
What are dynamic risk factors?
Changeable factors like drug use, peer associations, and employment status.
What are static risk factors?
Unchangeable history-based factors such as prior offending and custodial experience.
What are two criticisms of the risk management approach
- lack of individualism
- rehabilitation is not a core goal
What are the three aims of the transforming rehabilitation agenda?
- Expand support for short sentences
- introduce competition
- focus on outcomes over process
What three facotrs led to the ‘What Works’ agenda
- reaction to ‘nothing works’
- rise of CBT
- Research on high-risk offenders
Name two statements about the Good LIves Model
- Offenders are respected as people
- it aims to instill knowledge/skills for primary goods
Name two dynamic risk factors
- drug use
-peer associations
