Risk-Need-ResponsivityThe three principles with the strongest evidence in rehabilitation research.Criminal JusticeRehabilitation works best when intensity matchesrisk, work targets criminogenic need, and deliveryfits how the person learns.Risk + Need + ResponsivityLow-risk personLight or no programmeIntensity can harmAntisocial attitudesA criminogenic needTarget it directlyLow literacyAdapt the deliveryA responsivity issueTHE COMMON MISTAKEGive everyone the intensive programmeMatch intensity to assessed riskIntensive programmes given to low-risk people have been found to increasereoffending, partly through exposure to higher-risk peers.Educational reference. Andrews and Bonta's model has the strongestevidence base in correctional rehabilitation research.Risk-Need-Responsivitylearnposters.com
Risk-Need-Responsivity — printable law & society wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

What’s on the Risk-Need-Responsivity poster

The rule, 3 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes.

Educational reference. Andrews and Bonta's model has the strongest evidence base in correctional rehabilitation research.

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What’s on the Risk-Need-Responsivity poster?
The rule, 3 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes. Rehabilitation works best when intensity matches risk, work targets criminogenic need…; Risk + Need + Responsivity; Low-risk person = Light or no programme; Antisocial attitudes = A criminogenic need; Low literacy = Adapt the delivery; Common mistake: Give everyone the intensive programme → Match intensity to assessed risk. Educational reference. Andrews and Bonta's model has the strongest evidence base in correctional rehabilitation research.
Who is the Risk-Need-Responsivity poster for?
Risk-Need-Responsivity belongs to the Criminal Justice section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning corrections can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Risk-Need-Responsivity poster?
Use it to explain why matching matters more than programme enthusiasm. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Risk-Need-Responsivity belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Risk-Need-Responsivity?
Short Custody or Community, Desistance and Electronic Monitoring sit alongside Risk-Need-Responsivity in the Criminal Justice section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Short Custody or CommunityDesistanceElectronic Monitoring
Is the Risk-Need-Responsivity poster free to download and print?
Yes. Risk-Need-Responsivity downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Criminal Justice section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Risk-Need-Responsivity poster print at?
Risk-Need-Responsivity is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Risk-Need-Responsivity loses nothing.Printing guide

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