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Risk Assessment Report and Re-Offence Prevention: Joseph and Shawn Keen

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Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice, Walden University

CRJS-4102: The Criminal Mind

Thomas Kelley

February 14, 2021

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Risk Assessment Report and Re-Offence Prevention

Joseph and Shawn Keen

A risk and needs assessment tool evaluate the 'criminogenic' risk factors and basic needs of

criminals that will decrease the possibility of potential criminal activity if addressed. It helps to

establish if someone could re-offend and pinpoint the proper intervention that can be used to

reduce recidivism once released. Criminogenic needs are an individual's behaviors,

characteristics, or problems that directly relate to the risk of re-offending by the person. This

paper is the risk assessment of father and son, Joseph and Shawn Keen. By using the Good Lives

Model (GLM) and Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) Model assessment tools, Joseph and Shawn’s

chances of re-offending can be identified and an appropriate plan put into place for their

individual needs. They have committed Second-Degree Murder and need a suitable intervention

plan for their correctional and/or probation to reduce recidivism.

The RNR model recommends several primary practices for probation agencies, including the

evaluation of risk and needs and effective treatment (Viglione, 2019). While the GLM is a

philosophy of recovery that increases the concepts of risk, need, and responsivity of successful

correctional intervention by helping clients create and execute realistic life plans that are

incompatible with future crimes (Willis, Prescott, & Yates, 2013).

Joseph Keen

The risk principle states that, if the amount of recovery services given to the offender is equal

to the offender's risk of re-offending, offender recidivism can be minimized if proper treatment

and planning can be accomplished. A good way to assist this is by use of the GLM this is an

approach based on the strengths that focus on helping offenders build and execute realistic life

plans that are incompatible with offending (Willis, Prescott, & Yates, 2013). The need principle

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states that one should prioritize treatment and interventions on the established criminogenic

needs of each individual. Therefore, the need principle allows you to decide what methods and

resources you can offer and/or refer people to when under supervision (Cobb, Mowat, & Mullins,

2013). Some of Joseph’s major risk-need factors, intervention plans, and techniques to help him

not re-offend would be:

 Risk Factors: (history of antisocial behavior) he has refused any kind of psychological

assessment and shows a past of using and abusing women, behaving violently, and

having a calloused, non-compassionate way of thinking.

 Needs: (history of antisocial behavior) make sure he is aware that there is a problem with

his criminal way of thinking, build self-management skills.

 Risk Factors: (antisocial personality patterns and cognition) indicators of this are,

continuous lack of empathy and compassion towards women, prone to mood swings and

is impulsive, acts irrational and violent at times. Has rationalizations for criminal

behavior and engages in reckless acts. Also, has a negative attitude about being in trouble

for breaking the law by not being remorseful for his actions.

 Needs: (antisocial personality patterns and cognition) anger management will teach him

anger management skills and cognitive therapy will help to teach him how to have a pro-

social attitude. In addition to helping him to understand how his thoughts affect his

behavior (Guarino, n.d.).

 Risk Factors: (antisocial associates) people he hangs out with are friends from the bar

and other inmates.

 Needs: (antisocial associates) help him to recognize and change his antisocial way of

thinking and develop a pro-social identity through cognitive therapy. It will also help him

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to understand how changing the people he hangs around with that are more encouraging,

constructive people will affect his behavior in a positive way (Gibbon, et al., 2020).

 Risk Factors: (family/marital circumstance) when not in prison he does not spend much

time with his family. When he is home he fights with his wife, behaving violently with

her and violently harming another person with his son to the point they killed the man.

Does not parent appropriate, lack of self-discipline, and does not set a good example.

 Needs: (family/marital circumstance) family therapy can help him find motivation for

changing his relationship with his family. It is helpful to have the entire family, this can

provide consistency outside of therapy, it provides patience and understanding for

everyone involved (Guarino, n.d.). Also, some form of a parenting class may help.

 Risk Factors: (work/school) his job is driving a truck which isolates him from other

people including not being around for his family.

 Needs: (work/school) when not on the road driving a truck, Joseph needs to be at home

and not at the bar. Maybe even some other form of job training that keeps him home more

may be an option.

 Risk Factors: (substance abuse) alcoholism

 Needs: (substance abuse) substance abuse treatment helps with the addiction and will

affect his ability to improve how he acts with aggression and his impulsive behavior.

Remaining sober needs to be an important part of his treatment plan.

 Risk Factors: (leisure/recreation) his only recreational activities seem to be hanging out

at the bar and assaulting people.

 Needs: (leisure/recreation) some form of a constructive hobby to occupy his free time

would be a good idea. Also, group therapy may help to develop a relationship with people

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that can be positive for his want to change his ways. Even taking up a sport or hobby that

could positively include his son may help.

Shawn Keen

Shawn has grown up in a home where his education does not seem to be a priority, his parents

fight, and his father was in prison for strangling his mother. At 17 years of age influencing the

direction of his criminal behavior in a more socially acceptable way good be beneficial and

effective if addressed right away. These are some of Shawn’s major risk-need factors,

intervention plans, and techniques to help him not re-offend:

 Risk Factors: (history of antisocial behavior) he does not handle authority well, easily

becomes aggressive, and comes from a dysfunctional, violent family.

 Needs: (history of antisocial behavior) needs help on how to deal with life situations and

techniques on how to build self-management skills.

 Risk Factors: (antisocial personality patterns and cognition) following in the footsteps of

his father, he has a negative view of others and may believe that he has been mistreated

and abused causing him to think that others are deserving of this treatment as well. He

might not be able to accept another’s point of view other than his own.

 Needs: (antisocial personality patterns and cognition) cognitive behavioral therapy would

help to alleviate distressing emotions by first disputing the cognitive distortions and

automatic dysfunctional thoughts by closing-down the thought process that produce these

ideas. In the long run, if these thought processes are frequently/chronically ‘let go of’ and

carried out by Shawn it could help him to change his criminal way of thinking (Sargin,

Özdel, & Türk apar, 2016).ϛ

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 Risk Factors: (antisocial associates) the friends he has smoke weed and is not suitable

for him to change his ways.

 Needs: (antisocial associates) to find new friends through a community source or some

type of group therapy.

 Risk Factors: (family/marital circumstance) his fundamental values have been rooted in

him from early childhood and his genetic makeup. Therefore, he may have a criminal

attitude and assumptions that it is okay how he behaves.

 Needs: (family/marital circumstance) family therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy

will help him to decrease his aggressive emotions by learning to think before he acts and

approaching life situations with a different attitude.

 Risk Factors: (work/school) now that he has been convicted for Second Degree-Murder

he is most likely not in school. When he was it did not seem to be a priority for him.

 Needs: (work/school) a program to help him get his GED and some form of job training.

This will help him to occupy his time once released more productively.

 Risk Factors: (substance abuse) both parents are alcoholics, and his mother is addicted

to opiates. He is already drinking alcohol with his mother and smoking marijuana.

 Needs: (substance abuse) drug and alcohol treatment as well as contingency

management. This refers to a type of behavioral therapy in which individuals are

‘reinforced’, or rewarded, for evidence of positive behavioral change (Petry, 2011).

 Risk Factors: (leisure/recreation) his leisure activities consist of drinking and smoking

marijuana and getting into trouble.

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 Needs: (leisure/recreation) to focus on his education and getting a job plus

encouragement toward participating in a constructive hobby like playing an instrument or

a sport may help.

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References

Cobb, K. A., Mowat, M. A., & Mullins, T. (2013, August). Risk-needs responsivity: Turning

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Gibbon, S., Khalifa, N. R., Cheung, N. H., Völlm, B. A., & McCarthy, L. (2020). Psychological

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Guarino, G. M. (n.d.). Treatment for antisocial personally disorder. Retrieved from

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Petry, N. M. (2011, May). Contingency management: what it is and why psychiatrists should

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Sargin, A. E., Özdel, K., & Türk apar, M. H. (2016, October 13). ϛ Cognitive-behavioral theory

and treatment of antisocial personality disorder. Retrieved from

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phenomenon/cognitive-behavioral-theory-and-treatment-of-antisocial-personality-

disorder

Viglione, J. (2019). The risk-need-responsivity model: How do probation officers implement the

principles of effective intervention? In Criminal Justice and Behavior, 46(5), 655-

673. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1177/0093854818807505

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References Continued…

Willis, G. M., Prescott, D. S., & Yates, R. M. (2013). The good lives model (GLM) in theory and

practice. Sexual Abuse in Australia and New Zealand, 5(1), 3-9.

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