Deck 18: Risk Assessment and General Offender Behaviour Programme Delivery

Question 1

The three principles of effective offender rehabilitation that were proposed by Andrews and colleagues are risk, need and what else?

Answer 1

responsivity

Question 2

The responsivity principle states that those programmes that successfully match the style and method of delivery to the learning styles of the attendees will be more effective.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

There are four possible outcomes in risk assessment, _____of which are associated with correct predictions and _____of which are associated with incorrect predictions.

Answer 3

two
, two

Question 4

When an offender is predicted to reoffend when released from prison but does not, this situation is described as a false negative.

Question 5

The two basic types of risk assessment are clinical and actuarial risk assessment. Which one relies on statistical algorithms?

A) Clinical
B) Actuarial
C) Neither
D) Both

Question 6

Risk assessment tools that combine both clinical and actuarial approaches are described as _____generation tools.

Question 7

Which risk assessment tool produces separate risk prediction scores for general offending and violent offending?

A) The Offender Group Reconviction Scale (ORGS)
B) The Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R)
C) The Offender Assessment System (OASys)

Question 8

From the list of risk and need assessment tools below, identify the tool that was designed explicitly for use with sex offenders.

A) The Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R)
B) The Offender Assessment System (OASys)
C) The Historical, Clinical, Risk Management-20 (HCR-20)
D) The Structured Assessment of Risk and Need (SARN)

Question 9

General offending behaviour programmes rely on the theory of _____ which proposes that an individual does not require direct experience of an event in order to learn from it.

Question 10

One of the central principles of general offending behaviour programmes is the idea that problematic behavioural patterns are learned through observation of what?

A) Family members
B) Peer groups
C) Figurative models
D) All of the above

Question 11

Research suggests that those who drop out of treatment may actually reoffend at a greater level than those who don't even start a treatment programme.

Question 12

Hollin (1995) proposed three potential threats to programme integrity, but which of these three threats refers to a situation where the delivery of a programme is undermined by resistance to its aims and methods?

A) Programme drift
B) Programme reversal
C) Programme non-compliance