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VIII. Questions and Exercises Practice Guidelines are a set of basic rules designed to address the risk and need factors of offenders. They identify the set of practices that should guide how best to respond to the risk and need factors of offenders. That is, the guidelines are a set of principles that should guide how supervision should be tailored to facilitate offender change. Addressing offender risks and needs with practice guidelines will guarantee that staff will respond to offenders in a similar manner focused on offender change. It provides a mechanism to guide the staff to be more structured in their response. The task for this exercise is to have you and your staff create guidelines for each offender type. Please create these guidelines to coincide with the policies and procedures of your agency. Discuss how these guidelines can be standardized so similar offenders can be handled in a like fashion. NOTE: Some rules may be similar across the board for all typologies such as having a job or going to school.
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