Rnr Model Of Reducing Recidivism

The correctional system have been around since the 1800s, many changes have taken place since than. There is now order in the correctional system and how we deal with offenders that violate the law. Unities states have went from first generation to now fourth generation jails and prisons. They change to fit the needs of the prisoners and try to make prison as humane but not as comfortable so the offenders will not reoffend. There have been programs put into place to try to rehabilitate the offenders but it seems that they were set up for failed because it seems that nothing works. Principles of effective intervention have been put into place in order to show that there are programs that work there just needs to be empirical based programs …show more content…
RNR model has effective intervention on reducing recidivism in sexual, violent, and general recidivism. The risk should focus on higher risk offenders and should actuarial risk assessments. There are either little to no effects on reducing recidivism if the focus for risk assessment is used for low risk offenders, however once the focus is shifts to the ones who actually need it, such as the higher risk then the results will have a positive effect on reducing recidivism. Need principle, which is a dynamitic factor, focuses on the criminological needs, because you cannot have an effective program if there is conflict with the offender that is stopping the offender to come to the program. Responsivity consists of general and specific responsivity. General responsivity focuses on the cognitive, learning and social behavior. Specific responsivity focuses not only the criminological needs but also any other factors that hinder an offender from profiting from the programs. The LSI-R is one of many dynamic actual risk assessments that is used to predict the outcome of an offender reoffending. One issue with using the risk assesmtnes is that many are used for both male and females, which tend to be a problem because women have different needs than …show more content…
There are roughly 124,000 aging offenders from the age of 50 and older that are incarcerated. Aging offenders have the lowest crime rate out of all the age groups. The arrest for older offenders has almost doubled over the last couple of years. Older offenders are more likely to be incarcerated for serious crimes, however the baby boom period has a significant impact on why there is a lot of elderly offenders in the correctional system. Aging offenders are more prone to health issues than younger offenders. About 95% of offenders from the ages 50 to 65 years old experience some kind of health problem. There are Health condition ranges from heart diseases, arthritis, diabetes and other problems. Female offenders are more likely to seek health care than men. Roughly over half of the states have made a transition on taking care for older offenders by either having a secure location for offenders to enter nursing homes and some have even turned old mental hospitals into special housing for the aging offenders. From 2007 until 2010 there was a .7 percent increase in the prison population, however there was a 67% increase in aging