PSY 622 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Risk Management
19 Aug 2018
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Michael spratt (defense attorney) interview: http://canadaam. ctvnews. ca/proposed-sex-offender-registry-will-not-deter-crime- criminal-lawyer-warns-1. 1708077. Community notification; sex offender registries; prison sentencing (security levels: costly ( million in nj) and not proven to be effective. Prescott and rockoff (2011: registry is good for police, but not the public. Ide(cid:374)tificatio(cid:374) leads to (cid:862)loss of e(cid:373)ploy(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, housi(cid:374)g, or social ties,(cid:863) as well as (cid:862)stress, lo(cid:374)eli(cid:374)ess, a(cid:374)d depressio(cid:374). (cid:863) Incarceration is not an effective deterrent of post-release sexual offending. Other extreme measures are not very effective in reducing recidivism. Treat(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:374)eeds to target (cid:862)cri(cid:373)i(cid:374)oge(cid:374)ic (cid:374)eeds(cid:863) dy(cid:374)a(cid:373)ic risk factors. Note: tx may increase rate of recidivism in low risk offenders; but more importantly it also takes away resources from mod/high risk offender tx. Treatment is the best means for protecting society, harsher/longer sentences have the opp effect. Responsivity element - rnr model - responsivity is that the treatment should match the risk of the client so treatment should be individualized as much as possible.
