Rehabilitating Offenders

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  After successfully completing this subject you should be able to:

  1. describe and evaluate current approaches to offender risk and needs assessment
  2. explain the principles of effective offender rehabilitation
  3. describe evidence-based interventions for youth and adult offenders
  4. identify the strengths and limitations of individual-level interventions with youth and adult offenders
  5. utilise electronic literature databases to locate research reports on specific topics concerning offender rehabilitation
  6. evaluate empirical studies on the effectiveness of psychological interventions with youth and adult offenders.

• Topics covered

• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About Griffith University

Entry requirements

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 (Not currently 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

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.