Deck 12: Creating and Maintaining Rnr Adherence: a Real-World Challenge

Question 1

Which of the following are elements of integrity in program delivery?

A) training of staff and quality of pay
B) selection of staff and a clean office
C)a formal model of service delivery
D) clinical supervision and gender-responsiveness
E) racial-responsiveness

Answer 1

a formal model of service delivery

Question 2

Studies on the implementation of offender assessment instruments in real-world settings find that

A) staff enthusiastically endorse the instrument
B)after initial training, significant errors in administering the instrument remain
C) most staff immediately recognize that the instrument is better at prediction than their own professional judgment
D) after initial training, error rates are very low
E) these instruments are rarely used, and they are limited to research studies

Answer 2

after initial training, significant errors in administering the instrument remain

Question 3

The goal of behavioral treatments with offenders is to

A) increase feelings of self-worth
B)alter the density of rewards and costs associated with criminal behavior
C) increase the costs for crime and thereby deter future criminal behavior
D) teach assertiveness skills
E) assist in finding employment for offenders

Answer 3

alter the density of rewards and costs associated with criminal behavior

Question 4

According to the text, appropriate treatment can

A) reduce recidivism
B) save money in the long run
C) enhance justice
D) promote ethical treatment of offenders
E)all of the above

Question 5

On average, the effectiveness of treatments that follow the RNR principles in real-world, routine practice is

A) greater than in demonstration projects
B) about the same as what is found in demonstration projects
C) unknown since there are few organizations that have implemented research results on a large scale
D)about half of the effect size found in demonstration projects
E) about three-quarters of the effect size found in demonstration projects

Question 6

The allegiance effect refers to

A)the finding that effect size is greater when the author(s) of the assessment instrument/treatment program are involved in the evaluation
B) the nationality of the evaluators
C) subject selection bias
D) poor quality control in program implementation
E) the difficulties in large-scale program implementation

Question 7

Properly implementing a new offender risk/need instrument requires

A)staff buy in
B)high quality training
C)post-training monitoring
D)both b and c
E)all of the above

Question 8

The Correctional Program Assessment Inventory-2010 (CPAI-2010)

A) is used to see whether or not a program is a failure
B) can be easily used by anyone
C)takes the expanded RNR model and translates it into a program checklist
D) cannot be used to evaluate a correctional agency, only a specific program
E) is applicable to only youth criminal justice systems

Question 9

Indicators of the structuring principle are

A)prosocial modeling
B)disapproving procriminal behavior
C)reinforcing prosocial behavior
D)both a and c
E)all of the above

Question 10

The 2011 evaluation of the Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision (STICS) by Bonta and colleagues found STICS to be

A) about as effective as treatment demonstration projects
B)about as effective as routine, real-world projects
C) more effective than STARR but not EPICS
D) more effective than EPICS but not STARR
E) more effective than both STARR and EPICS