PSYC 379 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Involuntary Commitment, Group Psychotherapy, Anger Management
19 Sep 2017
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Managing at-risk juvenile offenders in the community randy borum: juvenile offenders continue to have special needs and vulnerabilities that may affect their treatment in and by. Evidence-based principles for risk management with juvenile offenders. Justice and delinquency prevention places strong emphasis on appropriately identifying high-risk population. Interventions should remediate or ameliorate effects of factors and conditions that might increase risk for violence and/or delinquency through risk assessment and risk management. Interventions that aggregate high-risk youth tend to be ineffective; however, intervention based on theory or conceptual model 5x more effective in reducing recidivism. Implement, follow up, and modify: program success strongly related to whether intervention was fully implemented/monitored, critical to conduct regular reassessments of risk and need due to cognitive, biological, social, and emotional life- changes in juveniles. Risk management using the hcr-20: a general overview focusing on historical factors stephen hart: goal of risk assessment is to prevent violence by guiding risk management activities.
