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 MISTAKE✗ Give everyone the intensive programme✓ Match 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
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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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