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Evidence-based Practices (EBP) - Principle 3. Target Interventions: Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR)/Dosage/Treatment

  • document cover for The Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision: Risk-Need-Responsivity in the Real World

    The Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision: Risk-Need-Responsivity in the Real World

    The application of the risk-need-responsivity (RNR) model of offender rehabilitation to one-on-one supervision of offenders placed under probation is examined. This RNR-based training program is called the Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision (STICS). Sections of this report include: abstract; the RNR model of offender rehabilitation; the present study; method; results for the success of random assignment, length and content of session discussions, quality of probation officers’ skills and intervention techniques, recidivism, and clinical support; and discussion. “The results showed...

  • document cover for Myths & Facts - Why Incarceration Is Not the Best Way to Keep Communities Safe

    Myths & Facts - Why Incarceration Is Not the Best Way to Keep Communities Safe

    The Community Corrections Collaborative Network (CCCN) is a network comprised of the leading associations representing 90,000-plus probation, parole, pretrial, and treatment professionals around the country, including the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA), the Association of Paroling Authorities International (APAI), the Federal Probation and Pretrial Officers Association (FPPOA), the International Community Corrections Association (ICCA), the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP), the National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies (NAPSA), and the National Association of Probation Executives (NAPE). This "Myths...

  • document cover for Myths & Facts - Using Risk and Need Assessments to Enhance Outcomes and Reduce Disparities in the Criminal Justice System

    Myths & Facts - Using Risk and Need Assessments to Enhance Outcomes and Reduce Disparities in the Criminal Justice System

    The Community Corrections Collaborative Network (CCCN) is a network comprised of the leading associations representing 90,000-plus probation, parole, pretrial, and treatment professionals around the country, including the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA), the Association of Paroling Authorities International (APAI), the Federal Probation and Pretrial Officers Association (FPPOA), the International Community Corrections Association (ICCA), the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP), the National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies (NAPSA), and the National Association of Probation Executives (NAPE).

    This "Myths...

  • Risk-Needs-Responsivity (RNR) Simulation Tool (1/4)

    The evidence-based practices (EBP) framework emphasizes that justice agencies should match offenders to services and programs based on their risk and need factors (“the RNR Principles”). The effective use of the RNR principles is challenging to implement because: 1) The available services for offenders in the community are often not consistent with risk and needs of offenders; and 2) Competing issues exist that make it difficult for policy makers to consider how best to simultaneously manage the offender in the community, ensure public safety, contain or reduce costs, and reduce individual offender recidivism.

  • The Risk-Need-Responsivity Simulation Tool (2013) (2/4)

    For people involved in the criminal justice system, evidence-based practice (EBP) and treatments emphasize that assessment and programming should target criminal justice, criminogenic need, and other behavioral issues. The notion is that individual outcomes can be improved by assessing for a number of related and often overlapping dimensions such as offending (e.g. criminal history risk), needs (e.g. antisocial peers, antisocial cognitions, antisocial values/thinking) and behavioral health factors (e.g. substance use, mental health, trauma). This evidence-based practice is referred to as the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) Model (Andrews and Bonta, 2010; Caudy et al., 2013).

  • The Technical Background of the Risk, Need, Responsivity (RNR) Simulation Tool (2012) (3/4)

    The Risk, Need, Responsivity (RNR) Simulation Tool was developed to help jurisdictions apply the RNR framework to practice. This document describes the RNR Simulation Tool and how it was developed. The RNR Simulation Tool is supported by a database of over 20,000 unique offender profiles of various risk, need, and recidivism combinations. The goal of this document is to help users understand the components of the model.

  • Evidence Based Practices Implementation for Capacity (EPIC) Resource Center: Risk-Need-Responsivity

    The Risk-Need-Responsivity principle was developed by Donald Arthur Andrews and James Bonta in 1990. It integrates the psychology of criminal conduct into an understanding of how to reduce recidivism. Using this concept, they identify three principles to guide the assessment and treatment of offenders to advance rehabilitative goals as well as reduce risk to society: risk principle, need principle, and responsivity principle (RNR).

  • The Risk Need Responsivity Model of Offender Rehabilitation: Is There Really a Need For a Paradigm Shift? (2013)

    The current paper critically reviews the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) and Good Lives Model (GLM) approaches to correctional treatment.

  • Risk-Needs-Responsivity: Turning Principles Into Practice for Tribal Probation Personnel (2013)

    This bulletin will provide a brief introduction to the risk, need, and responsivity principles espoused in the evidenced-based principles for community supervision.

  • Use of Risk and Needs Assessment Information in State Sentencing Proceedings (2017)

    1. What are judicial considerations in sentencing probation-eligible felony offenders?

    2. What is “evidence-based sentencing”?

    3. What is the “risk principle”?

    4. What is a risk assessment instrument?

    5. What is a risk and needs assessment instrument?

    6. How is risk and needs assessment information used in making sentencing decisions?

    7. Are risk and needs assessment scores used by the courts to make decisions about the appropriate severity of punishment?

    8. How widespread is the use of risk and needs assessment information at sentencing today?

    9. Is there any evidence about the effects of providing risk and needs assessment information to the courts at sentencing?

    10. Are risk and needs assessment tools biased against racial minorities?

     

  • The Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) Model: Does Adding the Good Lives Model Contribute to Effective Crime Prevention? (2011)

    The risk-need-responsivity (RNR) model has been widely regarded as the premier model for guiding offender assessment and treatment. The RNR model underlies some of the most widely used risk-needs offender assessment instruments, and it is the only theoretical model that has been used to interpret the offender treatment literature. Recently, the good lives model (GLM) has been promoted as an alternative and enhancement to RNR. GLM sets itself apart from RNR by its positive, strengths-based, and restorative model of rehabilitation. In addition, GLM hypothesizes that enhancing personal fulfillment will lead naturally to reductions in criminogenic needs, whereas RNR posits the...