Putting Science to Work: How the Principles of Risk, Need, and Responsivity Apply to Reentry

Using Social Science to Reduce Violent Offending

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Turner, Susan ^a   Petersilia, Joan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime reduction; Ecological models; Parole system; Prisoner reentry; Risk need responsivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883532946     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195384642.003.0055     Document Type: Chapter

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