Description :

Clinical interventions in criminal justice settings models opportunities for evidence based practice during entry into the criminal justice system arrest prosecution court pretrial release jail and prison sentencing community supervision incarceration and corrections jail prison probation and parole. Clinical interventions in criminal justice settings balances theoretical frameworks and research methodology to examine the effective evidence based practices and principles for populations within the criminal justice system the book explores the major clinical issues that are relevant for adopting evidence based practices and demonstrates how to implement them. Evidence based policy and practice is focused on reducing offender risk which in turn reduces new crime and improves public safety of the many available approaches to community supervision a few core principles stand out as proven risk reduction strategies. Clinical practices with clients in the criminal justice system including evidence based practice controversies inherent in the determination of what evidence based practice means and critical thinking and ethical decision making 2 to examine what is known about effective practice in corrections and how these empirically supported models and. Clinical interventions in criminal justice settings balances theoretical frameworks and research methodology to examine the effective evidence based practices and principles for populations within the criminal justice system