Treatment of Offender Populations: Implications for Risk Management and Community Reintegration – Traditionally, one of the goals of incarceration has been rehabilitation. However, there has been a great debate in the literature about the efficacy of different treatment interventions for offenders and the ability of these treatments to decrease recidivism rates. In the 1950s and 1960s there was some evidence that treating offenders worked (Bailey, 1966; Logan, 1972). However in 1974, Martinson conducted a review of 230 treatment studies and concluded that nothing works in the treatment of offenders (Martinson, 1974). These findings supported the growing movement in the criminal justice system from a rehabilitative approach to a punitive one.