The Risk, Need, Responsivity Model (RNR), for example, is an intervention that tabulates risk/needs factors as well as other attitudes and behaviors considered criminogenic (Andrews 2006).
Treatment of all participants is based on the Risk Need Responsivity (RNR) model [ 58] and matched care.
The Risk Need Responsivity model suggests that structured and targeted programs should be delivered with the aim to match content and pace of treatment with specific offender characteristics [ 39].
The positive effect of risk-need-responsivity (RNR) adherence remains in effect even with controls introduced for involved evaluators.
Such research may contribute to the development or refinement of a risk-need-responsivity model to support the decision making regarding out-of-home placement of children with serious psychosocial needs.
Using the risk-need-responsivity model, we conducted a systematic review of research on risk factors for recidivism among JIVs to identify the gaps in this literature and provide recommendations for future research.
Linking screening and assessment information to offender case plans is a cornerstone of the Risk-Need-Responsivity principle, a feature of evidence-based correctional programming (Andrews et al. 1990).
A meta-analysis of these principles has not been conducted yet but Prendergast and colleagues did report that adherence to the Andrews and Bonta Risk-Need-Responsivity model (partially included in the NIC principles) does appear to impact reductions in crime but not drug use (Prendergast, et al. 2013).
Programmes that adhere to the Risk-Needs-Responsivity principle, with strong strategies for reducing criminality, have been shown to be particularly effective in rehabilitating offenders and reducing recidivism [ 26].
We can therefore see that treatment of ADHD within offender populations fits well with the Risk-Needs-Responsivity principle, which proposes that treatment is targeted at the riskiest cases and at needs relevant to the service (e.g. treatment targeting criminogenic needs in offending populations).
The Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model emphasizes that treatment should focus on changeable factors which have been shown to be related to the client's risk for re-offending; i.e. his 'criminogenic needs' [ 3].
