Evidence of Professionalism or Quackery: Measuring Practitioner Awareness of Risk/Need Factors and Effective Treatment Strategies

While the principles of effective correctional intervention are well established in the correctional literature, there is a growing suspicion that correctional practitioners remain unaware of this knowledge base. The authors examine the level of knowledge that correctional practitioners have of the "what works" literature by asking them to identify empirically relevant criminogenic needs and empirically supported treatment modalities.