Article: When programs "don't work" with everyone: planning for differences among correctional clients.

"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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