Rehabilitating Offenders

• • Introduction and unit overview
  • Principles of Risk Assessment
  • Serious and violent youth offenders
  • Multisystemic treatment for serious youth offenders
  • Vocational and educational training
  • Cognitive skills
  • Substance abuse
  • Special populations
  • Understanding violent offending
  • Treating violent adults
  • Assessment of sexual offending
  • Treatment of sexual offending

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.

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%)
• Online Exam (30%)