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The Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) Model: Does Adding the Good Lives Model Contribute to Effective Crime Prevention?
The Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) Model: Does Adding the Good Lives Model Contribute to Effective Crime Prevention?
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
Aug. 23, 2012
ANNOTATION: “Recently, the good lives model (GLM) has been promoted as an alternative and enhancement to RNR [risk-need-responsivity]. GLM sets itself apart from RNR by its positive, strengths-based, and restorative model of rehabilitation. In addition, GLM hypothesizes that enhancing personal fulfillment will lead naturally to reductions in criminogenic needs, whereas RNR posits the reverse direction. In this article the authors respond to GLM’s criticisms of RNR and conclude that little substance is added by GLM that is not already included in RNR, although proponents of RNR may learn from the popular appeal that GLM, with its positive, strength-based focus, has garnered from clinicians over the past decade” (p. 735). Sections of this article include: summarizing and contrasting the RNR and GLM models; the expanded RNR model; a summary of the major statements of GLM; pathways to reducing criminal behavior; what RNR really says; motivating offenders by concentrating on modifying dynamic risk factors; RNR and the role of “narrative identity” and agency in the change process; RNR’s view of human nature; therapeutic alliance and the role of noncriminogenic needs; RNR as a psychometric model; respect of individual differences; RNR as an integrated theory; why the appeal of the Good Lives model; and summary and conclusions.
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