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- Title
Offender Risk Assessment Practices Vary across Canada.
- Authors
Bourgon, Guy; Mugford, Rebecca; Hanson, R. Karl; Coligado, Marie
- Abstract
The dominant Canadian approach to offender rehabilitation, the risk-need-responsivity (RNR) model, requires assessing offenders' likelihood of recidivism and their criminogenic needs (i.e., risk/need assessments). The current study examines the risk/need assessments routinely used in Canadian corrections and compares their risk category labels. All Canadian jurisdictions used a risk/need tool for general recidivism, most used sex-crime-specific tools, and a few used tools specific to intimate partner violence. There was, however, considerable diversity in the names, number, and meaning of the risk category labels, which could result in different responses to the same individual based solely on the version of the risk tool used in any specific jurisdiction. Our results suggest that increased attention to the meaning of risk category labels could facilitate offenders receiving the most appropriate and fair correctional responses.
- Subjects
CORRECTIONAL rehabilitation; RISK assessment -- Mathematical models; REHABILITATION; CORRECTIONAL Service Canada; RECIDIVISM rates; CRIME statistics; HISTORY
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2018, Vol 60, Issue 2, p167
- ISSN
1707-7753
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/cjccj.2016-0024