Training Description
Promoting positive outcomes and aiding offenders in desisting from criminal behavior as quickly as possible should be a goal of any correctional involvement. In this training, you will learn to focus on the best strategies to help clients achieve a crime-free lifestyle. The concept of desistance offers a new framework for considering how best to work with individuals in the justice system, with an emphasis on strengths, protective factors, and incentivizing positive behaviors. Though enhancing motivation, breaking down barriers to change, and resolving ambivalence by increasing hope, desistance focuses on stabilizing the individual using pathways that are constructive and can lead to productive lives.
Trainer Biography
Faye S. Taxman, Ph.D. is a University Professor in the Criminology, Law and Society Department and Director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence at George Mason University. Dr. Taxman is recognized for her work in the development of the seamless systems of care models that link the criminal justice with other service delivery systems as well as reengineering probation and parole supervision services, and organizational change models. Her work covers the breadth of the correctional system from jails and prisons to community corrections and adult and juvenile offenders, including all types of interventions and system improvement factors. She has had numerous grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Justice, National Institute of Corrections, Office of National Drug Control Policy, and Bureau of Justice Assistance. Dr. Taxman has published over 125 articles and is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Experimental Criminology, Criminology and Public Policy, and Journal of Offender Rehabilitation.
Learning Objectives
This training is designed to help you:
- Define Crime Desistance
- Identify how crime desistance is related to risk and need
- Explore factors that influence individual change and crime desistance
- Understand how crime desistance fits with supervision, and the role that you can play in the desistance process