Recommendations

Allocation of Psychological Service treatment resources should be based on:

1. probability of risk of reconviction and seriousness of offence
   
   
2. demonstrated treatment effectiveness
   
   
3. the need for clinical research to:
4. • 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.
     
     
5. the need to treat both sentenced and remand inmates psychologically disturbed by being in prison.