"The last 10 years since the first edition of this volume, the literature base of the What Works movement has witnessed seismic changes in policy, practice, and research into correctional rehabilitation, not least of all how we refer to people caught up in correctional rehabilitation. Since Gwenda Willis published her 2018 paper highlighting the ethical concerns and incongruence of labelling people based on criminal convictions, there has been increased emphasis within the research literature for person-first language and the avoidance or de-emphasis of offence-based labels (e.g., 'sexual offender') to describe people. In several international journals covering issues of psychology and the law, authors are encouraged to be thoughtful about the connotations of language used in their manuscripts to describe persons or groups"-- Provided by publisher.