En France, l’évaluation structurée du risque de récidive est peu développée face au jugement professionnel non structuré, pourtant moins valide. Cet article propose une revue systématique la littérature, répondant aux critères PRISMA, sur perception et pratique structurée, en chez les professionnels concernés. Les mots clés « Évaluation » AND France ont été recherchés dans Pubmed, PsycInfo, Cai...

For many years it has been stated repeatedly that American prisons simply provide for the punishment of offenders and do not rehabilitate them. The lack of meaningful programs in facilities primarily committed to the control of aggressive behavior, deemed antisocial by the criminal law, has been associated with a recidivism rate that clearly shows the failure of these methods of correcting such...

The number of children experiencing parental imprisonment is increasing in Western industrialized countries. Parental imprisonment is a risk factor for child antisocial behavior, offending, mental health problems, drug abuse, school failure, and unemployment. However, very little is known about whether parental imprisonment causes these problems. Parental imprisonment might cause adverse child ...

This article focuses on the evolution of prison library services in the United States and the changes in the roles and purposes of prison libraries over the last two centuries. The development of standards and guidelines for prison libraries under the leadership of the American Library Association and the American Correctional Association is discussed. The characteristics of the offender popula...

The conceptual relationship between restorative justice and punishment has already attracted a great deal of attention in the literature. A similarly rich body of work has considered the two main aims of punishment, retributivism and reductivism, in relation to criminological theories. It is surprising, therefore, that relatively little (direct) attention has been paid to the relation between r...

In response to the historically fragmented efforts to manage sex offenders within the criminal justice system and treatment community, it has been suggested that goals of offender accountability and community safety can be better attained through a more comprehensive, coordinated, and systemic approach. Anchored by a series of fundamental principles, the comprehensive approach to sex offender m...