What works in correctional rehabilitation 10 years on

The development of offending behaviour programmes has greatly expanded over the last 10 years, based on improved knowledge and awareness of neurodiversity and forensic neuroscience in understanding offending behaviour and rehabilitation. The good lives model (GLM) focusses attention on the ways in which loss or deprivation of ‘goods’ can impact the propensity to enter into offending processes. The object of GLM intervention is an individual’s good life plan, and the adaptive pursuit of primary human goods in their daily lives where the aim of correctional intervention is the promotion of primary goods, or human needs that, once met, enhance psychological well-being. The importance of relationship building is recognised as being critical to successful, effective interventions, both in general psychology and in correctional interventions. Emphasis on structured systems offering environmental stability as part of the rehabilitative process has expanded in the last 10 years.