Risk Tells Us Who, But Not What or How: Empirical Assessment of the Complexity of Criminogenic Needs to Inform Correctional Programming

Criminology and Public Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 71-103

  Taxman, Faye S ^a   Caudy, Michael S ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Destabilizers; Differential interventions; Evidence based practices; Offender treatment; Risk and need assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922889054     PISSN: 15386473     EISSN: 17459133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1745-9133.12116     Document Type: Article

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