Discuss about the high drop-out rate in the offending behaviour programmes

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Introduction

Discuss about the high drop-out rate, Offender Behaviour Programmes (OBPs) are series of activities and plans for offenders and criminals which are aimed to reduce the likelihood of reoffending. Offenders can belong from any age group; from juveniles to adult criminals. Offender Behaviour Programmes are variable in context to duration, complexity and method of deliverance and are specified according to the requirements and risks of the offender such as age, race, type of offence involved in and other factors revolving around the offence and the offender themselves.

These programmes cater to victims of substance abuse, aggression, alcohol withdrawal and other low, medium and high risk offences. Evidence suggests that dropout offenders have a higher chance to get reconvicted. A study showed that only one third of the offenders enrolled in a programme finish it till completion and therefore, this leads to higher chances of reoffending by the accused (Department of Justice, United Kingdom, 2015).

In the mid 1970’s a study analysed the effect of interventions practised in offender behaviour programmes which were used with adult offenders and concluded that there was no evidence that the interventions practised were going to result in prevention of reoffending. This research by Martinson (1974) led to the popular notion that interventions are not effective and hence the effectiveness of these practices in offender rehabilitation programmes was reassessed thoroughly. The reason why the interventions were failing was because there was no regulation or assessment done on the results of the programmes (Department of Justice, Discuss about the high drop-out rate UK and HMYOI Wetherby, 2015).
For many years, organisations in United Kingdom have tried to decrease the incidence of re-offending especially in juvenile offenders. Recently the programme interventions were based on the principle known as “What Works”. These principles were highlighted after a thorough search using meta-analysis on previous research studies in order to identify the trends and to differentiate between effective and non-effective interventions practised in offender behaviour programmes (Christopher, Nangle and Hansen, 1993).

Reasons being high drop-out rate from Offender Behaviour Programmes
As offending behaviour programmes are planned to decrease reoffending by the criminal it is important for us to know that whether they actually work and are they able to produce the desired outcome or not. In a study, Discuss about the high drop-out rate  Gondolf (2004) made a comment about domestic violence programmes which is nearly applicable to all offending behaviour programmes. He stated that evaluation of a programme is a complex and tough job and leads to difficulty in understanding the results of the evaluation. This is why many programmes go under checked and are not assessed on their effectiveness (Blud and Travers, 2001).
According to a survey…