Lec 2

Question 1

Risk principle:

Answer 1

Punishment/treatment tailored to the risk level of the offender
intensity of the treatment-re-offending risk

Question 2

Need principle:

Answer 2

Treating criminogenic needs- there are some risk factors that are not linked to the risk of re-offending

Question 3

Responsivity principle:

Answer 3

• The extent the treatment is connected to the skills and abilities of the offender
• General and specific responsivity

Question 4

RNR:

Answer 4

-R: mapping offender risk (risk assessment)
-N: 8 central dynamic factors
R: Success of intervention depends on: relation principle and structure principle

Question 5

Risk assessment tools:

Answer 5

• Offending type (general, sexual)

- Offender (personality, age)

Question 6

Effectivity of RNR:

Answer 6

• Using all 3 principles: big decrease in recidivism risk, especially in community populations
• Increased recidivism risk for residential populations
• using only 1 principle led to small decrease

Question 7

Criticism of the RNR model

Answer 7

• Focus on risk factors and not strengths
• Little focus on patient’s responsivity and motivation for treatment
• Too little focus on patient-therapist relationship
• On size fits all approach

Question 8

Good Lives Model (positive psych. approach):

Answer 8

• constructive approach, based on person’s strengths

- Obtaining skills to obtain primary social goods –> subjective well-being

Question 9

4 markers of GLM:

Answer 9

1. A positive approach based on offenders strengths
2. Risk factors: disruptions in internal and external conditions for realizing psychological goods
3. Signifies which skills and capacities are necessary for initiating treatment (therapeutic readiness)
4. The attitude of the therapist towards the patient (therapeutic alliance)