Rehabilitating Offenders

• • Principles of Risk Assessment
  • Working with adolescents I: focus on youth who have committed serious sexual or violent offences
  • Working with adolescents II
  • Working with adults I: Vocational and educational training
  • Working with adults II: Cognitive skills
  • Working with adults III: Substance abuse
  • Working with adults IV: Special populations
  • Working with adults V: understanding and assessing violent and sexually violent behaviour
  • Working with adults VI: Treating people with convictions for sexual violence
  • Final Exam Revision

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• GRF-CCJ33-Rehabilitating Offenders (No longer available)

Others

This is not an introductory subject. You should complete a number of other first and/or second year subjects. Students who have completed more than 2 OUA units (GPA 4.0+) and are planning on completing the Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice are strongly encouraged to enrol in the degree. Part of this process will involve registering your study plan with Griffith University, which will help to ensure that you are studying the required units.

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

This subject examines strategies for changing criminal behaviour available within the correctional system, drawing particularly on psychological principles and research. The implications of the various theories of crime causation for correctional programming are considered. A review of specific rehabilitation programs, in institution and community settings, is presented. A critical assessment of the rehabilitation ideal, in terms of ethical, theoretical and practical concerns, is undertaken.

• Assignment One (20%)
• Assignment Two (50%)
• Final exam (30%)

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