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Cognitive Skills Programmes: Impact on Reducing Reconviction Among a Sample of Female Prisoners
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Cognitive Skills Programmes: Impact on Reducing Reconviction Among a Sample of Female Prisoners
Publication year:
2006
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The reduction of recidivism rates for female offenders by prison-based cognitive skills programs (e.g., Enhanced Thinking Skills and Reasoning and Rehabilitiation) is determined. Sections of this brief are: key points; the sample; expected reconviction; actual reconviction; further analysis; discussion; developments in custodial interventions for female offenders; and conclusion. "This study does not provide evidence of the effectiveness, in terms of reduced reconviction, of prison-based cognitive skills programmes delivered to female offenders between 1996 and 2000" (p. 5).