Ch. 8 Flashcards
What is the risk-need-responsivity? RNR
Its an assessment and treatment tool that is based on risk, need and responsivity principles.
What is a risk principle in RNR?
The likelihood of recidivism and the offering of appropriate services
What is the need principle in RNR?
The risk of recidivism is minimized when criminogenic needs are treated.
Criminogenic needs
changeable factor that predicts criminal behaviour and can be targeted during treatment
What is the responsivity principle?
The idea that treatment work best when matches to learning styles and abilities of inmates.
What is the gender-responsive-model?
A specific assessment and treatment approach for criminalized women. Involves the trauma responsivity principle, strength-based principle, relational principle and holistic treatment principal.
What is the main importance of assesment?
Assessment drives programming
What are the central risk factors? (8) And what are the extras specific to women?
- criminal history
- pro criminal attitudes
- pro criminal associates
- anti-social personality pattern
- family/marital
- school/work
- substance abuse
- leisure/recreation
specific to women: - childhood maltreatment
- mental disorder/trauma
- interpersonal and family factors
- structural factors
- low self-esteem
What must placement decisions take into consideration?
- public safety
- running of institution
least restrictive environment possible
What is cascading?
The process of placing incarcerated individuals in progressively lower security facilities
What mental disorders are criminogenic factors and which arent?
- personality disorders are
- anxiety, depression, psychosis are not
There are some situations where mental disorder may in fact be criminogenic, what are they?
- co-morbidity
- presence of certain psychotic symptoms
- poor medication compliance
- presence of certain mental disorders
What makes custodial sentences have no effect on recidivism or increase it?
People are re-embedded into crime via knowledge they learn in jail, and when released they face new barriers to be law abiding citizens
What makes treatments effective for women?
- strength based
- relational
- holistic
- address co-occuring needs simultaneously
- emphasis on substance misuse, mental disorders, emotions, and thinking patterns
What is the WOCP and the IWOCP
Programming for women in jail, and then specific to Indigenous women
