Providing incentives and rewarding specific desired behavior motivates individuals to work toward long term behavior change. These strategies focus on public safety, victim protection and restitution, offender accountability, consistent and effective sanctioning, addressing substance abuse issues, reducing offender unemployment and most critically, reducing recidivism through long term behavior modification."
Positive Direction for Change (2010)
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