Corrections must devise personality-based intervention programs to account for differences among offenders. Personality-based intervention models recognize the fact that offenders respond in different ways to correctional treatment strategies as well as to correctional environments. Thus, offenders are classified into different groups to receive treatment based on individual differences. This approach allows correctional practitioners to make meaningful distinctions among offenders in their daily interactions and contribute to the process of matching offenders to appropriate intervention programs.
"It's not that we haven't found effective correctional interventions, it's that we haven't ...