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Promoting Offender Change: Strategies for Safer Incarceration and Community Supervision

Reduce recidivism in Minnesota by applying evidence-based principles for effective intervention, targeting criminogenic needs, and matching services to risk levels. Learn how to implement proven strategies for offender change.

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Promoting Offender Change: Strategies for Safer Incarceration and Community Supervision

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  1. Applying Risk, Need, Responsivity & Fidelity Principles with Correctional Clients Bridget Letnes, Facilities Reentry Manager Contributing to a Safer Minnesota | mn.gov/doc

  2. Contributing to a Safer Minnesota Reduce recidivism by promoting offender change through proven strategies during safe and secure incarceration and effective community supervision

  3. Eight Guiding Principles of Evidence-Based Practices Contributing to a Safer Minnesota | mn.gov/doc

  4. RISK • WHO • Deliver more intense interventions to higher risk participants • NEED • WHAT • Target criminogenic needs to reduce risk for recidivism • RESPONSIVITY • HOW • Use CB approaches • Match mode/style of service to participant • FIDELITY • HOW WELL • Deliver services as designed Review of thePrinciples of Effective Intervention

  5. Why The Principles of Effective Intervention? Put Research into Practice Organize Our Resources Understand Dosage Focus on the Individual Reduce Risky Thinking and Behaviors Contributing to a Safer Minnesota | mn.gov/doc

  6. The Risk Principle Risk tells us “who” to target • Determine risk level through validated risk tool • Most tools categorize offenders into low, moderate, or high risk for reoffending • Match risk level to appropriate interventions and supervision level • Remember: it’s the risk of reoffending not the severity of the crime

  7. The Need Principle Need tells us “what” to target Interventions and programs should target criminogenic factors Criminogenic factors are those highly correlated with recidivism Criminogenic factors are dynamic or changeable

  8. Criminogenic Need Factors Primary • Criminal History • Attitudes, values, beliefs • Peer associations • Personality Secondary • Education / Employment • Family • Substance abuse • Leisure / Recreation

  9. Need factors • Antisocial/procriminal attitudes, values, beliefs & cognitive emotional states • Procriminal associates & isolation from anticriminal others • Temperamental and antisocial personality patterns conducive to criminal activity • A history of antisocial behavior • Familial factors that include criminality • Low levels of personal, educational, vocational, or financial achievement • Low levels of involvement in prosocial leisure activities • Substance abuse

  10. Iceberg Model Contributing to a Safer Minnesota | mn.gov/doc

  11. The population we’re serving is not considered high risk because they have one need factor, but rather because they have MULTIPLE factors

  12. Non-Criminogenic Examples Mental Health Trauma Poverty Physical Conditioning Self-Esteem Homelessness

  13. Recidivism impacts from targeting multiple criminogenic needs More criminogenic than non-criminogenic needs More non-criminogenic than criminogenic needs 13 (Andrews, Dowden, & Gendreau, 1999; Dowden, 1998)

  14. The Need Principle: Results from meta analyses Gendreau, P., French, S., & Taylor, A. (2002). What Works (What Doesn’t Work) Revised 2002. Invited Submission to the International Community Corrections Association Monograph Series Project

  15. Level of Service/Case Management Inventory What is the LS/CMI? • A “paper and pencil” assessment conducted by trained professionals to account for criminogenic needs of offenders. • 43 items on the assessment. • 0-4 Very Low • 5-10 Low • Medium 11-19 • High 20-29 • Very High 30+ • Although designed and validated on a wide range of populations, it has not been validated on the MN prisoner population. Contributing to a Safer Minnesota | mn.gov/doc

  16. What would you target? Sally Seekingchange 35 years old Homicide Life sentence No documented mental health concerns and no past suicidal or self-injurious behavior *Low Risk* Contributing to a Safer Minnesota | mn.gov/doc

  17. What would you target? Contributing to a Safer Minnesota | mn.gov/doc

  18. Table and Large Group Discussion • Discuss one thing you learned today • Discuss how you/your organization currently addresses criminogenic needs/factors in services for correctional clients. • What is one way you/your organization could/will use the needs principle after today Contributing to a Safer Minnesota | mn.gov/doc

  19. Thank you! Bridget Letnes bridget.letnes@state.mn.us 651-361-7241 Contributing to a Safer Minnesota | mn.gov/doc

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