Donald A. Andrews

Donald A. Andrews was a Canadian correctional psychologist and criminologist who spent his career at Carleton University, where he helped build its Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He challenged the influential claim that nothing works in correctional rehabilitation, arguing instead that treatment could reduce reoffending when properly targeted, and he is credited with coining the terms criminogenic needs and risk-need-responsivity, concepts that reshaped how offender risk and treatment are assessed across the criminal justice field.