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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://community.nicic.org/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Thinking About Corrections : Risk assessment</title><link>http://community.nicic.org/blogs/corrections_headlines/archive/tags/Risk+assessment/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Risk assessment</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 SP1 (Build: 30415.43)</generator><item><title>A Cogent Look at Offender Assessment and Rehabilitation</title><link>http://community.nicic.org/blogs/corrections_headlines/archive/2007/10/18/a-cogent-look-at-offender-assessment-and-rehabilitation.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:57:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">26cc0436-63b6-4ef3-9d43-d8006bc9b9ca:5490</guid><dc:creator>Eileen Conway</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;A new &lt;a class="" title="Risk Need Responsivity report" href="http://www.ps-sp.gc.ca/res/cor/rep/_fl/Risk_Need_2007-06_e.pdf"&gt;report&lt;/a&gt; from James Bonta and D.A. Andrews, &lt;strong&gt;Risk-Need-Responsivity Model for Offender Assessment and Rehabilitation&lt;/strong&gt;, reviews the evolution of offender assessment instruments and rehabilitation theories.&amp;nbsp; Looking at the role of the risk-need-responsivity model, the authors explain &amp;quot;why some interventions work and others do not.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://community.nicic.org/aggbug.aspx?PostID=5490" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://community.nicic.org/blogs/corrections_headlines/archive/tags/What+works/default.aspx">What works</category><category domain="http://community.nicic.org/blogs/corrections_headlines/archive/tags/Risk+assessment/default.aspx">Risk assessment</category><category domain="http://community.nicic.org/blogs/corrections_headlines/archive/tags/Rehabilitation/default.aspx">Rehabilitation</category></item></channel></rss>