Determining Your Client’s Likelihood of Success under Community
Supervision and Improving the Odds for a Non-Prison Sentence
Publication year:
2009
| Cataloged on:
Sep. 17, 2012
ANNOTATION: “This paper discusses some of the ways you can determine your client’s likelihood of success under community supervision, identify those areas where you client needs additional support to improve the likelihood of success, and persuade a judge that prison is a greater than necessary punishment for your client” (p. 1). Sections of this document are: assessing the risk of recidivism—the Risk Prediction Index (IRPI), and other ways to assess risk; assessing your client’s criminogenic needs and building a strong foundation for success in the community—cognitive skills, health and sobriety, employment, education and literacy, housing, money management, familial/social relationships and anger management, transportation, and making amends, building empathy, and pro-social attitudes; and strategies for persuading the judge to impose an alternative sentence.
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