TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Cognitive-behavioural treatment for imprisoned offenders: An evaluation of HM Prison Service's cognitive skills programmes
JO  - Legal and criminological psychology
A1  - Friendship, Caroline
A1  - Blud, Linda
A1  - Erikson, Matthew
A1  - Travers, Rosie
A1  - Thornton, David
SP  - 103
EP  - 114
VL  - 8
IS  - 1
N2  - Purpose. The effectiveness of prison-based cognitive-behavioural treatment programmes was evaluated using reconviction as the outcome measure.Method. Reconviction rates were compared between two groups of adult male offenders who were serving a custodial sentence of 2 years or more in Her Majesty's Prison Service, England and Wales. The treatment group (N =667) consisted of offenders who had voluntarily participated in one of two treatment programmes that targeted 'cognitive deficits' related to offending behaviour. The comparison group (N =1,801) was made up of offenders who had not participated in the treatment programme but were "matched" to the treatment group on a number of empirically relevant variables.Results. Treatment produced a robust reduction in the probability of reconviction (p < .001) when other relevant variables were controlled for. For treated offenders, the percentage point reduction in reconviction was 14% in medium-lowrisk offenders and 11% in medium-high-risk offenders.Conclusion. These outcome results demonstrate that the principles of effective practice in the field of offender rehabilitation, which were identified through meta-analytical research predominately in North America, can be applied to a UK offender population to similar effect.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 1355-3259
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/135532503762871273
ID  - ref1
ER  -