Allocation of Psychological Service treatment resources should be based on:
- probability of risk of reconviction and seriousness of offence
- demonstrated treatment effectiveness
- the need for clinical research to:
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- identify psychological variables to enhance the accuracy of reconviction prediction
- refine existing and develop new psychological techniques to assess psychological variables impacting on the probability of reconviction
- identify psychological variables which treatment must address to reduce probability of reconviction
- refine existing and develop new psychological techniques to assess psychological variables which treatment must address to reduce probability of reconviction
- refine existing and develop new psychological treatment techniques to effectively reduce probability of reconviction.
- the need to treat both sentenced and remand inmates psychologically disturbed by being in prison.
