Rehabilitating Offenders

• Topics

  • Introduction and unit overview
  • Principles of offender assessment and treatment
  • Serious and violent youth offenders
  • Multisystemic treatment for serious youth offenders
  • Vocational and educational training
  • Treatment with adult violent offenders
  • Cognitive skills training
  • Treatment for substance dependent offenders
  • Adult violent offenders
  • Treatment with adult violent offenders
  • Adult sexual offenders
  • Assessment and treatment with adult sexual offenders

• Study resources

  • Instructional Methods

    • Disscusion forum/Discussion Board
    • Online assignment submission
    • Podcasting/Leacture capture

  • Online Materials

    • Audio-Video streaming
    • Printable format materials
    • Resources and Links

Entry Requirements

Others

This is not an introductory subject. You should complete a number of other first and/or second year subjects.

Special requirements

No special 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 1 (20%)
• Assignment 2 (50%)
• Invigilated Exam (30%)

Textbooks are subject to change within the academic year. Students are advised to purchase their books no earlier than one to two months before the start of a subject.