Treatment of High-Risk High-Need Sexual Offenders: The Integrated Risk Need Responsivity Model (RNR-I)

The present article briefly describes the Integrated Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR-I) Model developed by our team [1,2]. This model provides a contemporary perspective regarding the earlier RNR Model developed by Andrews & Bonta (1998, 2010) [3,4]. The original RNR Model did not account for research that has emerged over the last few decades indicating that a history of serious mental illness represents a risk factor for sexual offence recidivism among convicted sexual offenders. As well, issues associated with complex trauma were not incorporated into the original RNR model. Research in support of the RNR-I Model will be discussed as will case examples that illustrate some of the issues raised by the model.