The Treatment of Offenders: Current Practice and New Developments with an Emphasis on Sex Offenders

Ward, Tony; Gannon, Theresa A.; Yates, Pamela M.

doi:10.1177/026975800801500207

“…Tony Ward et al stated that efforts to rehabilitate the convict involves strategies focused on changing the individual offenders and ensuring they desist from their criminal activities (Ward, 2008). According to Andrew and Bonta stated that one of the strategies is the importance of understanding the different (of each) reasons that led the individuals (convicted) to commit the various crimes and the interventions required to change their behaviors (Andrew & Bonta, 2008).…”

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A Special Institution in the Context of the Correctional System Revitalization

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This research describes the individualization of convict coaching and the special penitentiary for certain convicts. It also analyzes the understanding required to revitalize convicts' correctional facilities, which assess changes in treatment regarding those with "good behavior." Furthermore, this research examined the possibility of revitalizing convicts' penitentiary to focus on the security approach. When the basic concept of the revitalization of the penitentiary is focused on the level of "treatment," which is based on the assessment criteria of "good behavior of the convicts," the convicts are placed in the penitentiary with minimum security. Furthermore, this change assesses the ability to change the existing treatment system for convicts. This is normative legal research, with data obtained from primary and secondary legal materials through literature study. The results showed that the individualization of coaching rests on the fact of the convicts' heterogeneity based on their classification, which affects the type of coaching applied. This variety of coaching affects the facilities and infrastructure needed therefore it is based on the heterogeneity of convicts the need special Penitentiary.

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“…Using this method, the formulation seeks to identify those traumas and resulting pathogenic beliefs and aim to help the patient achieve their goals (Eells & Lombart, 2011). However, as cognitive-behavioural (CBT) therapies are most often prescribed in treatments of sexual offenders and general offenders (Ward, Gannon, & Yates, 2008), CBT case formulations will be described in more detail.…”

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Dynamic Risk Factors and their Utilisation in Case Formulation: A New Conceptual Framework

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The social pressure on policy makers and clinicians working with sexual offenders to reduce recidivism is extreme. A result of this pressure is the amount of research investigating risk-related features that has surged over the last few decades. Risk assessment has progressed from unstructured clinical judgement to development of risk factors that correlate with recidivism to predict levels of risk, and more recently, to forensic case formulation. This thesis concentrates on two key issues with forensic case formulation that has been largely neglected thus far. First, forensic case formulations rely heavily on the use of dynamic risk factors as causes of offending. The concern is that dynamic risk factors are composite constructs not causal mechanisms. Second, forensic case formulation models do not explain how to use an offender’s information and their risk factors to hypothesise about the cause of their offending leading to issues of reliability. To address these issues, the RECFM consists of five phases that guides clinicians on how to appropriately use forensic case formulation. The Risk Etiology Case Formulation Model (RECFM) aims to incorporate a reconceptualised version of dynamic risk factors using an Agency Model to identify the interaction of agent and context that causes offending behaviour. By using the RECFM, treatment can be targeted to the individual and their specific causes of offending, which will lead to better results in reducing recidivism. The aim of this thesis is to provide a forensic case formulation model is comprehensible for clinicians and that targets the causes of offending.

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“…Using this method, the formulation seeks to identify those traumas and resulting pathogenic beliefs and aim to help the patient achieve their goals (Eells & Lombart, 2011). However, as cognitive-behavioural (CBT) therapies are most often prescribed in treatments of sexual offenders and general offenders (Ward, Gannon, & Yates, 2008), CBT case formulations will be described in more detail.…”

Section: Chapter 2: Case Formulation Clinical Case Formulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic Risk Factors and their Utilisation in Case Formulation: A New Conceptual Framework

Palmer¹

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The social pressure on policy makers and clinicians working with sexual offenders to reduce recidivism is extreme. A result of this pressure is the amount of research investigating risk-related features that has surged over the last few decades. Risk assessment has progressed from unstructured clinical judgement to development of risk factors that correlate with recidivism to predict levels of risk, and more recently, to forensic case formulation. This thesis concentrates on two key issues with forensic case formulation that has been largely neglected thus far. First, forensic case formulations rely heavily on the use of dynamic risk factors as causes of offending. The concern is that dynamic risk factors are composite constructs not causal mechanisms. Second, forensic case formulation models do not explain how to use an offender’s information and their risk factors to hypothesise about the cause of their offending leading to issues of reliability. To address these issues, the RECFM consists of five phases that guides clinicians on how to appropriately use forensic case formulation. The Risk Etiology Case Formulation Model (RECFM) aims to incorporate a reconceptualised version of dynamic risk factors using an Agency Model to identify the interaction of agent and context that causes offending behaviour. By using the RECFM, treatment can be targeted to the individual and their specific causes of offending, which will lead to better results in reducing recidivism. The aim of this thesis is to provide a forensic case formulation model is comprehensible for clinicians and that targets the causes of offending.

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The Treatment of Offenders: Current Practice and New Developments with an Emphasis on Sex Offenders

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A Special Institution in the Context of the Correctional System Revitalization

A Special Institution in the Context of the Correctional System Revitalization

Dynamic Risk Factors and their Utilisation in Case Formulation: A New Conceptual Framework

Dynamic Risk Factors and their Utilisation in Case Formulation: A New Conceptual Framework

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