Supervision: A Behavioral Management Process to Reduce Recidivism

III. Behavior and Change

The behavior management approach recognizes that learning and sustaining new behaviors is part of public safety, and that the supervision agency should facilitate offenders' movement through the change process.

This supervision model, as depicted in Exhibit 1, guides staff to be focused on tangible, obtainable and immediate objectives as part of the long-term strategy of assisting the offender in the change process during the supervision period. This model integrates effective interventions in the empirical literature in the fields of corrections, law, psychology and sociology into a supervision process.