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Article: When programs "don't work" with everyone: planning for differences among correctional clients.
- Article from:
- Corrections Today
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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"It's not that we haven't found effective correctional interventions, it's that we haven't found interventions that work with all of our clients all of the time." It's a frustrating and real observation made by researchers, practitioners and policy-makers that is well-grounded in correctional research. Indeed, 30 years of research on correctional clients provides us with three fairly consistent observations: a) there are no panaceas that work with all offenders or even the majority of offenders within a single program,(1) b) offenders respond differentially to correctional treatment strategies(2) and c) offenders evidence differential adjustments to correctional ...
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