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Criminal Justice, Risk and the Revolt against UncertaintyReflections on Risk Assessment in Community Corrections

Criminal Justice, Risk and the Revolt against Uncertainty: Reflections on Risk Assessment in... [The adoption of risk assessment instruments and practices in community sanctions founded in a risk-needs-responsivity framework and an increased political emphasis on recidivism has opened up the potential revival of notions of rehabilitation. Interviews with a group of Sydney-based accommodation and rehabilitation post-release service providers suggest that this potential is being undercut by the failure to address structural problems in the provision of services and a shift in emphasis from service provision to “criminogenic needs”. The chapter then addresses a set of more general themes: “systemic responsivity”, the individualizing tendency of risk assessment; the need to link risk assessment and desistance theory; the problematic nature of risk assessment for vulnerable populations; and the social justice implications of the professionalization of risk assessment practice.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Criminal Justice, Risk and the Revolt against UncertaintyReflections on Risk Assessment in Community Corrections

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society Book Series
Editors: Pratt, John; Anderson, Jordan
Brown, David
Criminal Justice, Risk and the Revolt against Uncertainty — Mar 18, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
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978-3-030-37947-6
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43 –67
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-37948-3_3
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Abstract

[The adoption of risk assessment instruments and practices in community sanctions founded in a risk-needs-responsivity framework and an increased political emphasis on recidivism has opened up the potential revival of notions of rehabilitation. Interviews with a group of Sydney-based accommodation and rehabilitation post-release service providers suggest that this potential is being undercut by the failure to address structural problems in the provision of services and a shift in emphasis from service provision to “criminogenic needs”. The chapter then addresses a set of more general themes: “systemic responsivity”, the individualizing tendency of risk assessment; the need to link risk assessment and desistance theory; the problematic nature of risk assessment for vulnerable populations; and the social justice implications of the professionalization of risk assessment practice.]

Published: Mar 18, 2020

Keywords: “Transformative risk subject”; Recidivism; Risk instrument; LSI-R; “Systemic responsivity”; Vulnerable populations

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