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"Provides comprehensive coverage on recidivism risk/needs assessment tools"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsements -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Preface -- 1 From "Nothing Works" to "What Works": The History and Social Context of Rehabilitation -- Introduction -- The Age of Enlightenment -- The Penitentiary and Reform -- The Progressive Era -- The Crime Control Period -- The "What Works" Agenda -- The Current Landscape -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- References -- 2 Understanding Risk and Needs: The Importance of Assessment -- Introduction -- Major Risk Factors -- Dynamic versus Static Factors -- Evolution of Classification and Assessment -- Development of Assessment Tools -- Juvenile Risk/Need Assessment Tools -- Reliability and Validity -- Assessment and Classification in Practice -- The Principles of Offender Classification -- Risk Principle -- Need Principle -- Responsivity Principle -- Professional Discretion -- Limitations with Assessment -- Case Planning -- Identifying Targets for Change -- Setting Goals and Objectives -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- References -- 3 Barriers to Treatment: Understanding Specific Responsivity -- Introduction -- Why is it important? -- Motivation to Change -- Cognitive Ability -- Mental Health -- Personality -- Trauma -- Demographic and Cultural Characteristics -- Other Barriers -- Strategies for Dealing with Barriers -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- Note -- References -- 4 What Doesn't Work: Ineffective Approaches and Correctional Quackery -- Introduction -- Intermediate Sanctions -- Intensive Supervision -- Day Reporting Centers -- Home Detention and Electronic Monitoring -- Shock Incarceration -- Scared Straight Programs -- Correctional Quackery -- Ineffective Treatment Approaches -- Substance Abuse Treatment -- Targeting Noncriminogenic Needs -- Summary -- Key Terms.

There have been eight U.S. states that have implemented prison nurseries in women's correctional facilities. This article examines the second oldest U.S. prison nursery program located in the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women. Using data from the program spanning the years 1994-2014, three main criteria were utilized as key performance indicators to evaluate success—recidivism within 3 years of initial offense, percentage of women returning to prison custody over the 20-year period, and program cost savings. Major findings related to women who participated in the nursery program include a 28% reduction in recidivism and a 39% reduction in women returning to prison custody. Overall, the program achieved cost savings of more than US$6 million for the period 1994 to 2012.

This study examined whether there were variables that moderated the relationship between denial and recidivism among adult male sexual offenders. The first study (N=489) found that the relationship with sexual recidivism was moderated by risk (as measured by the Rapid Risk Assessment for Sexual Offense Recidivism) but not by psychopathy (as measured by the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised). Contrary to expectations, denial was associated with increased sexual recidivism among the low-risk offenders and with decreased recidivism among the high-risk offenders. Post hoc analyses suggested that the risk item most responsible for the interaction was "relationship to victims". For incest offenders, denial was associated with increased sexual recidivism, but denial was not associated with increased recidivism for offenders with unrelated victims. These interactions were substantially replicated in two independent samples (N=490 and N=73). The results suggest that denial merits further consideration for researchers as well as those involved in applied risk assessment of sexual offenders.

Most sex offenders will eventually be released from incarceration and will need to reintegrate into society. It is, consequently, critical to understand what motivates individuals to commit sexual offenses, what reduces the likelihood of recidivism, and the best method of managing and supervising sex offenders in the community.

The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee undertook an in-depth, comprehensive bipartisan investigation of procedures to dispatch detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility (GTMO) over the past decade. This included an examination of mechanisms intended to prevent former detainees from reengaging in terror-related activities. This book explores how the Bush and Obama administrations, in reaction to domestic political pressures and a desire to earn goodwill abroad, attempted to advance strategic national security goals, and ""release"" or ""transfer"" GTMO detainees elsewhere