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Topics in Community Corrections, Annual Issue 2004: Assessment Issues for Managers

Compiled articles present several views of the complex issues involved in implementing new and integrated systems for offender assessment in community corrections. Articles include: Foreword by Dot Faust; Understanding the Risk Principle: How and Why Correctional Interventions Can Harm Low-Risk Offenders by Christopher T. Lowenkamp and Edward J. Latessa; In Search of a Risk Instrument by Zachary Dal Pra; Quality Assurance and Training in Offender Assessment by Sally Kreamer; How Do You Know If the Risk Assessment Instrument Works? by Kelly Dedel Johnson and Patricia L. Hardyman; Quality Case Management Through the Integrated Use of Assessment Data by Steve Street; From Counting Heads to Measuring Work: A Risk Control Model by Joanne Fuller and Ginger Martin; Automating Offender Risk Assessment by George S. Braucht, John Prevost, and Tammy Meridith; Implementing an Offender Risk and Needs Assessment: An Organizational Change Process by Thomas F. White; and Empirical Evidence on the Importance of Training and Experience in Using the Level of Service Inventory-Revised by Christopher T. Lowenkamp, Edward J. Latessa, and Alexander M. Holsinger. Accession Number: period265

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