University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
Law Hum Behav. 2012 Dec;36(6):496-505. doi: 10.1037/h0093935. Epub 2012 Jan 9.
A growing body of research suggests that high quality dual role relationships between community corrections officers and offenders reduce risk of recidivism. This study assesses whether this finding generalizes from offenders with mental illness to their relatively healthy counterparts. More importantly, this study tests the possibility that this finding is spurious, reflecting the influence of pre-existing offender characteristics more than a promising principle of practice. In this study of 109 parolees without mental illness, the authors found that (a) firm, fair, and caring relationships protect against rearrest, and (b) do so even after accounting for offenders' pre-existing personality traits and risk for recidivism. These findings are consistent with the theoretical notion that good dual role relationships are an essential element of core correctional practice, even (or particularly) for difficult or high risk offenders.
越来越多的研究表明，社区矫正官员与罪犯之间高质量的双重角色关系可以降低累犯的风险。本研究评估了这一发现是否可以从患有精神疾病的罪犯推广到相对健康的罪犯。更重要的是，本研究检验了这一发现是否具有虚假性，反映了预先存在的罪犯特征的影响，而不是实践中一个有前途的原则。在这项对 109 名没有精神疾病的假释犯的研究中，作者发现：(a)坚定、公正和关爱的关系可以防止被捕，并且 (b)即使在考虑到罪犯预先存在的个性特征和累犯风险后也是如此。这些发现与这样一种理论观点一致，即良好的双重角色关系是核心矫正实践的一个基本要素，即使（或特别是）对困难或高风险罪犯而言也是如此。
