Research

Offender Risk Assessment and Classification

• which are the most (and least) useful risk assessment measures and how successful are they in predicting offender outcome?

Effective Correctional Programming

• “what works” (and what doesn’t) in offender programming?

Correctional Program Evaluation

• what are the program components that make correctional programs effective (or ineffective)?

Empirical Research Methodology and Statistics

• what methods of measurement do we use to answer the above questions?

Knowledge Cumulation and Technology Transfer

• how do we know what we know and how do we effectively communicate that knowledge to interested constituents (i.e., offenders, families, policy makers)?