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From Barriers to Breakthroughs
The peer specialists visit with jail residents as soon as possible after receiving referrals from ACJ intake staff. “It’s important to build rapport quickly,” Kline noted, “as people can be released from a county jail at any moment. It is hard to build trust with someone who has been using substances." We overcome that by becoming a consistent factor in their lives and being a source of critical support. Often, individuals who are incarcerated don’t have family or friends available, so our peers may be their only support.
American Jail Association Magazine
Efforts to change deviant behavior in correctional facilities dates back to the 1800s, when Jacksonians created institutions to reorganize wayward deviant behaviors. Correctional interventions mostly involve group treatment along with group exercises.
Corrections Today Magazine
One of the main goals of the criminal justice system is rehabilitation and this can be achieved through a variety of different programs. One method used to reduce violent offending is by using the Risk Need Responsivity principle, which has been proven to help reduce recidivism. The Risk Needs Responsivity model is a theoretically and empirically informed approach to offender management (Vose et al., 2020).
American Jails Magazine
Various skill sets are needed from leaders and employees to implement correctional intervention programs. Leadership trickles from the top down within organizations and it is imperative to have the correct leadership in place to run successful programs. Staff must be trained in a proper way and program evaluation needs to be conducted on a regular basis to ensure the success of a correctional intervention program. to have the correct leadership in place to run successful programs. Staff must be trained in a proper way and program evaluation needs to be conducted on a regular basis to
Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Special Populations
Abstract
The author discusses various special populations that exist within the criminal justice system and how cognitive intervention programs can be developed and implemented into treatment programs. Special populations such as sex offenders, females, juveniles, and offenders that have substance abuse disorders are discussed within the realm of development and implementation of cognitive treatment programs. The offender needs to be presented with the correct treatment program so that when they are released from confinement or community supervision, that they will be successful and remain free of criminal activity.
Keywords: Cognitive treatment programs, females, sex offenders, juveniles, substance abuse disorders
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