Risk/Need Assessments 101: Science Reveals New Tools to Manage Offenders
- Topics: Risk/need assessment, offender management
- Description: This reference brief covers the considerations needed for implementing an assessment tool, the challenges presented by a risk/need assessment, available tools, and risk/need basics.
- Resource Type: Research Brief
- Length: 8 pages
- Agency/Author: The Pew Center on the States
- Year Published: 2011
The Risk-Need-Responsivity Model for Assessment and Rehabilitation
- Topics: Risk need responsivity, resources, terminology
- Description: This section from the NIC online transition from jail to community toolkit provides the research behind the risk-need-responsivity (RNR) model and why this model is an important concept to understand when carrying out the 10 tasks outlined in the Targeted Intervention Strategies section of the TJC Implementation Roadmap.
- Resource Type: Website Resource Page/Online Training Modules
- Length: N/A
- Agency/Author: Urban Institute, Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections
- Year Published: Unknown