Supervision: A Behavioral Management Process to Reduce Recidivism

III. Behavior and Change

Steps 2 and 3: Tools of the Trade to Facilitate Offender Change.

Research and advances in technology allow the behavior management model to offer a broad and powerful array of tools to control offenders' risk to public safety and help change their behavior.

The tools can be categorized into four areas:

 

  • Communication,
  • Information,
  • Incentives and
  • Services.
While these categories serve to help organize the concepts, many tools do not fit neatly into a single category.