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Evaluating Evidence for the Effectiveness of the Reasoning and Rehabilitation Programme

Year: 2005

Type: article

Abstract: : Reasoning and Rehabilitation is a cognitive‐behavioual training programme for offenders, accredited by the Home Office for use with offenders in prison and on custodial sentences in England and Wales. Evidence the programme achieves significant reductions in offending is questionable. A matched control study is reported which used both offending and psychometric outcome measures. Findings for reconviction are mixed. Offenders whose attitudes changed pro‐socially were more likely to be reconvicted than were offenders whose attitudes did not change positively. This casts doubt on whether reconviction is reduced because of attitudinal change, and on the use of measures of attitudinal change in evaluation.

Source: The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2311.2005.00356.x

Author: John Wilkinson

Institutions: Government of the United Kingdom, University of Surrey, Health and Safety Executive

Language: English

Topic: Crime Patterns and Interventions

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2127781633

FWCI: 12.06

Cites: 24

Cited by: 44

Related to: 20