The Empirical Basis for the RNR Model with an Updated RNR Conceptual Framework

Taxman, Faye S.; Pattavina, April; Caudy, Michael S.; Byrne, James; Durso, Joseph M.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6188-3_4

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“…When examining justice-involved individuals, research suggests between 70% and 80% of offenders report using illicit substances in their lifetime (Taxman, Pattavina, Caudy, Byrne, & Durso, 2013). This rate, however, is affected when arrest rates are disentangled.…”

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Perceptions of Balanced Justice and Rehabilitation for Drug Offenders

Sloas

Atkin-Plunk

2018

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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Drug courts were designed as a way to provide both rehabilitation and sanction-based approaches to drug offenders. Yet studies have not directly tested a “balanced” approach to justice for drug offenders. Drawing on the work of Mears, Pickett, and Mancini, this study adapts the philosophical tenets of juvenile courts into a drug court setting. This study uses multinomial logistic regression from a sample of 575 undergraduate criminology and criminal justice students from a large southern university to assess support for sanctioning approaches for nonviolent and violent drug offenders. Findings suggest that participants support a balanced justice approach to sanctioning violent drug offenders, whereas supporting a rehabilitation approach to sanctioning nonviolent drug offenders. The findings from this study highlight the importance of the public’s differing views on sanctioning drug-involved offenders.

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Perceptions of Balanced Justice and Rehabilitation for Drug Offenders

Sloas

Atkin-Plunk

2018

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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“…Recent conceptualizations of the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model - the most influential model of offender treatment [ 53 , 54 ] - have encouraged the consideration of broader social determinants of health [ 23 ]; recognizing that recidivism can be powerfully influenced by factors such as unstable housing, mental illness, lack of pro-social employment, and social exclusion. This broad view appears to be reflected in the current results, whereby the previously reported reductions in recidivism were associated with significant changes in health and social supports.…”

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Beyond recidivism: changes in health and social service involvement following exposure to drug treatment court

Rezansoff

Moniruzzaman

Clark³

et al. 2015

Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy

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BackgroundThe majority of Drug Treatment Court (DTC) research has examined the impact of DTCs on criminal recidivism. Comparatively little research has addressed the association between DTC participation and engagement with community-based health and social services. The present study investigated changes in participant involvement with outpatient healthcare and income assistance within a DTC cohort. We hypothesized that involvement with community-based (outpatient) health and social services would increase post-DTC participation, and that service levels would be higher among program graduates and offenders with histories of co-occurring mental and substance use disorders.MethodsParticipants were 631 offenders at the DTC in Vancouver, Canada (DTCV). Administrative data representing hospital, outpatient medical care, and income assistance were examined one-year pre/post program to assess differences over time. Generalized estimating equations were used to investigate the association between changes in service use and program involvement. We also examined the relationship between level of service use and offender characteristics.ResultsMembers of the cohort were disproportionately Aboriginal (33 %), had been sentenced 2.7 times in the 2 years preceding their index offence, and 50 % had been diagnosed with a non substance-related mental disorder in the five years preceding the index offence. The mean number of outpatient services post DTCV was 51, and the mean amount of social assistance paid was $5,897. Outpatient service use increased following exposure to DTCV (Adjusted Rate Ratio (ARR) = 1.45) and was significantly higher among women (ARR = 1.47), program graduation (ARR = 1.23), and those previously diagnosed with concurrent substance use and mental disorders (ARR = 4.92). Overall, hospital admissions did not increase post-program, although rates were significantly higher among women (ARR = 1.76) and those with concurrent disorders (ARR = 2.71). Income assistance increased significantly post program (ARR = 1.16), and was significantly higher among women (ARR = 1.03), and those diagnosed with substance use disorders (ARR = 1.42) and concurrent disorders (ARR = 1.72).ConclusionsThese findings suggest that the DTCV was a catalyst for increased participant engagement with community health and social supports, and that rates of service use were consistently higher among women and individuals with concurrent disorders. Research is needed to investigate the potential link between health and social support and reductions in recidivism associated with DTCs.

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“…As a guide to service delivery, the RNR model has been associated with positive outcomes including reduced recidivism, and its focus on behavioral change indicates potential improvement in health outcomes as well. 32 …”

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How Health Care Reform Can Transform The Health Of Criminal Justice–Involved Individuals

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Provisions of the Affordable Care Act offer new opportunities to apply a public health and medical perspective to the complex relationship between involvement in the criminal justice system and the existence of fundamental health disparities. Incarceration can cause harm to individual and community health, but prisons and jails also hold enormous potential to play an active and beneficial role in the health care system and, ultimately, to improving health. Traditionally, incarcerated populations have been incorrectly viewed as isolated and self-contained communities with only peripheral importance to the public health at large. This misconception has resulted in missed opportunities to positively affect the health of both the individuals and the imprisoned community as a whole and potentially to mitigate risk behaviors that may contribute to incarceration. Both community and correctional health care professionals can capitalize on these opportunities by working together to advocate for the health of the criminal justice–involved population and their communities. We present a set of recommendations for the improvement of both correctional health care, such as improving systems of external oversight and quality management, and access to community-based care, including establishing strategies for postrelease care and medical record transfers.

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The Empirical Basis for the RNR Model with an Updated RNR Conceptual Framework

Cited by 13 publications

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Perceptions of Balanced Justice and Rehabilitation for Drug Offenders

Perceptions of Balanced Justice and Rehabilitation for Drug Offenders

Beyond recidivism: changes in health and social service involvement following exposure to drug treatment court

How Health Care Reform Can Transform The Health Of Criminal Justice–Involved Individuals

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