![]() ![]() Those with the lower risk have better chances of being truly rehabilitated. The word, "Risk" refers to us as "probability of reoffending'' whereas, someone with low risk is opposite and lowered risk of reoffending. According to Wright, " “Risk principle states that interventions should target high-risk offenders for programs to be effective, they must assess offender risk”. It sounds based on the term alone, something like allowing a high- risk offender an opportunity to be free soon or something along that line. The first principle of effective intervention, is the risk principle. ![]() 9.1) This paper is going to describe the four different types of effective intervention principles and which principle works best according to statistics. “Community corrections can be described as “programs that keep offenders out of prison but also provide for community security, and they have grown more popular largely because they are less costly than imprisonment” (Wright, 2012, p. They have stimulated what has become known as the “what works” movement. There are four general principles of effective intervention that have become organizing concepts of community corrections. I believe that rehabilitation works for some people not everyone as I believe that what works for some wont for everyone. Some people believe that criminals can change after being incarcerated while others think they cannot. Is it possible that a person can be rehabilitated after doing time behind bars? Is it a waste of our time to let someone that has been incarcerated for a long time be allowed to be out with the public? Do we trust the individual? These are the questions that many people would like to know. The 4 Principles of Effective Intervention ![]()
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