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Evidence-based practices are: ✔️Ans --are approaches empirically
researched and proven to have measurable, positive outcomes
Interventions are considered effective when they what: ✔️Ans --
reduce risk and recidivism
Evidence based practices emphasize the use of what: ✔️Ans --
validated assessment tool and treatments
TRAS will help make decisions regarding what: ✔️Ans --how to
most effectively supervise the probationers
Does punishment alone reduce recidivism: ✔️Ans --no evidence
has been found that punishment alone reduces recidivism
Prosocial behaviors are: ✔️Ans --law abiding behaviors
-concern for others rights, feeling, and welfare
-behaving in a way intended to help other people
Antisocial behaviors are: ✔️Ans --law breaking behaviors
-disregard for rules, laws, and authority
4 principles of effective intervention: ✔️Ans --Risk principle
-Need principle
-Responsivity principle
-Professional discretion
The Risk Principle states that: ✔️Ans --supervision and treatment
resources should be prioritized for probationers who are at higher risk to re-
offend
Treatment effects have what effect of high and low risk probationers:
✔️Ans --strongest on high risk probationers
-can be harmful to low risk probationers
Low risk probationers are often able to what: ✔️Ans --self-correct
Offense type is or is not predictive of risk: ✔️Ans -offense type is
not predictive of risk
Risk does or does not determine how dangerous a probationer is:
✔️Ans -does not determine how dangerous a probationer is
The risk principle focuses on what: ✔️Ans --who to target for
intervention
,Using the risk principle, CSO's have a systematic approach to prioritize
supervision and treatment resources on which probationers:
✔️Ans --probationers higher risk to re-offend
Accurate assessment is what: ✔️Ans --drives effective correctional
programs and evidence-based decision-making
Good assessments meet the what: ✔️Ans --risk and needs principle
Assessments allow: ✔️Ans --reduced bias
-assist in decision making
-target dynamic risk factors
-measure change
Dynamic factor are: ✔️Ans --factors that can change
Static factors are: ✔️Ans --factors that can't change
An "agent of change" is who: ✔️Ans --someone who provokes or
precipitates significant change or action in an individual
7 Stages of Change: ✔️Ans --Pre-contemplation
-Contemplation
-Determination
-Action
-Maintenance
-Relapse
-Permanent exit
Pre-contemplation stage of change: ✔️Ans -stage where a person is
not even contemplating making a change
Contemplation stage of change: ✔️Ans -stage where a person is
generally ambivalent- weighing pros and cons
Determination stage of change: ✔️Ans -stage where person makes
a firm decision to change- planning takes place in this stage
Action stage of change: ✔️Ans -stage where a person begins their
plan- difficult because person misses comfort of past habits while developing
new habits
Maintenance stage of change: ✔️Ans -stage where new habits have
been established- in crisis old habits may occur
Relapse stage of change: ✔️Ans -stage where continues old
behaviors
Permanent exit stage of change: ✔️Ans -stage where old habits are
no longer tempting- even during crisis situations
Need principle focuses on what: ✔️Ans --criminogenic needs to
target
, The need principle states that interventions must be what: ✔️Ans
--focused
In community supervision, "dosage" means: ✔️Ans --applying the
appropriate intensity and duration of treatment based on the probationer's
risk level and criminogenic needs
The needs principle states that interventions must: ✔️Ans --target
the needs that are related to the probationers law breaking behavior
Risk management: ✔️Ans --determines risk
-applies corresponding sanctions, supervision, and restrictions
-may produce change, but is generally short-term
Risk reduction: ✔️Ans --determines risk and identify criminogenic
needs
-utilizes effective interventions and treatment
-produces long-term change
Primary Risk Factors often exist: ✔️Ans --on their own,
independent of other factors
Secondary Risk Factors typically: ✔️Ans --stem from primary risk
factors
-are rooted in the behaviors associated with primary risk factors
Primary Risk Factors include: ✔️Ans --antisocial attitudes
-antisocial peers
-antisocial personality
-history of antisocial behavior
Secondary Risk Factors include: ✔️Ans --lack of prosocial family
support
-lack of prosocial leisure activities
-lack of education/employment
-drug abuse/addiction
Antisocial attitudes include: ✔️Ans --crime is a way of life
-a distrust of authority
-pro-criminal values, beliefs, cognitive-emotional state
#1 probationer risk factor: ✔️Ans --antisocial attitudes
Criminogenic needs are dynamic attributes of probationers that are directly
linked to their: ✔️Ans --criminal behavior
The responsivity principle illustrates what: ✔️Ans -barriers must
be removed to initiate positive behavior change
Examples of Responsivity Issues include: ✔️Ans --mental health
issues
-physical health issues
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