Which Criminogenic Need Changes Are Most Important in Promoting Desistance From Crime and Substance Use?

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 276-299

  Wooditch, Alese ^a   Tang, Liansheng Larry ^a   Taxman, Faye S ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

criminogenic needs; offender rehabilitation; probation; risk needs responsivity (RNR); substance use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893544596     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854813503543     Document Type: Article

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