RNR

Develop a brief guidebook on how to implement risk-needs-responsivity principles. The guidebook will be prepared for a broad audience of criminal justice stakeholders, including those in King County, to: 1) Recognize the importance of risk-needs-responsivity (RNR) in supervision and rehabilitation for those in the criminal justice system; 2) Identify gaps in current practices for managing and treating those with DV offenses; 3) Apply RNR-based management strategies to one’s own population.

Local planning efforts have identified the problem of low levels of treatment success among criminal justice population, due in part to a lack of evidence-based programming among treatment providers, as well as the absence of a validated system for treatment matching. The resulting high rates of recidivism are a public safety hazard as well as a considerable burden on the limited resources of the local criminal justice system.