Abstract The Good Lives Model (GLM) is an increasingly popular framework of offender
rehabilitation used internationally for a variety of offending typologies. However, opponents …

In this article, the authors draw on literatures outside sexual offending and make
suggestions for working more positively and constructively with these offenders. Although …

Assessment is a core component of social work. Since first publication, Assessment in Social
Work has provided students and practitioners with a clear overview of the complex issues …

There has been a profound shift in attitudes toward offender rehabilitation in the last two
decades from a conviction that nothing works to the confident announcement that certain …

This important and original new book reports on a major investigation of the outcomes of
probation supervision, is concerned with the key question of what works in probation, and …

How would a good lives model of sex offender treatment differ from a risk-need model? In
the good lives model, risk factors are viewed as obstacles that erode individuals' capacities …

Stephen Wormith (2011) pose the question whether adding the good lives model (GLM) to
crime prevention initiatives provides additional value over and above using interventions …

Objective: Treatment compliance and motivation to change are among the main challenges
to improving batterer intervention program (BIP) effectiveness. This study examined whether …

The Second Edition of Correctional Theory: Context and Consequences continues to identify
and evaluate the major competing theories used to guide the goals, policies, and practices …

This book, addresses the current state of knowledge on the treatment of sexual offenders
and the issues that must be targeted for treatment to be effective. A consideration of this …