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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"community supervision"”.
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Pretrial Supervision’s Prediction for Probation
… the impact of pretrial interventions (jail and community supervision) and post-conviction community supervision outcome. It was found that pretrial supervision and jail time can be predictors for probation outcome when controlling for demographics and criminal risk. Additionally, surveys were …
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Correlates of Recidivism: A Study Examining the Differences Between First Time Felony Probationers and Recidivist Felony Probation Offenders
… acquired and maintained by the Denton County Community Supervision and Corrections Department (CSCD), the study consists of 40 first time felony offenders and 40 recidivist felony offender placed on probation during the year 2000. The method consists of a longitudinal comparison model. To …
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Deterrence and urinalysis of probationers
Urinalysis of offenders under community supervision has become a standard procedure for probation offices in the United States. The District of Nevada reports proportionally half the rate of positive urine tests compared to the national average. The current research utilized a survey and field …
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Measurement of Adolescent Psychopathy: Construct and Predictive Validity in Two Samples of Juvenile Offenders
… seclusions, and treatment refusals) and community supervision (probation contacts, drug testing, and re-arrests) are operationalized and measured in order to examine the predictive validity of adolescent psychopathy. Results of construct validity offer modest support for the two-factor …
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'Now You See Me, Now You Don't' - Service Delivery to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Offenders: A Study of Policy and Practice in Saskatchewan Community Corrections
FASD offenders involved in community corrections present a variety of challenges. One of the primary presenting challenges facing community corrections practitioners is how best to provide service to FASD offenders. What would the components of a service delivery program include in order to most …
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Policing the Borders of An Empire: A Political History of Tagging (1960–2008)
… US, a little over 4 million, or 70%, are under community supervision. If we narrow in on the nearly 350,000 people being monitored by the immigration system, the figure goes up to 93%. Yet, most studies on criminalization conducted in the US, prioritize confined individuals, neglecting community …
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Leisure and surveillance in Irish childhoods: A cross-class study of Cork city
… of children by technological means, physical supervision, community supervision, or adult supervised activities (Nelson, 2010; Lareau, 2003; Fotel and Thomsen, 2004). This research adds significantly to understandings of Irish childhood by providing the first in-depth qualitative analysis of …
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Fragmenting probation? A qualitative study of voluntary, public and private sectors’ interactions in supervision
… focusses on the everyday experience of probation supervision in an increasingly multi-agency environment and explores this experience from the point of view of probation workers and the people they supervise. The objectives of the study are to examine whether the probation service makes a …
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An Investigation of Completion Status of a Cognitive Behavioral Intervention in a Population of Offenders on Probation
… to place individuals who commit crimes under the supervision of a community agency for a specific period of time. These probation sentences are instituted for the purpose of reducing the cost to the state of incarcerating offenders while maintaining deterrence against new offenses. Since the goal …
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Unpacking Risk? Section 810 Peace Bonds in Prince Albert
… peace bonds have come to supplant other forms of community supervision (i.e. parole) for high-risk offenders in Canada. Although peace bonds are central to the lived experience of offenders in Canada; very few studies have taken them up within the literature. Based on a review of the literature, …
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The Future is Female: An Examination of Officer-Offender Relationships Using a Sample of Justice-Involved Women
… Kaeble & Alper, 2020). Likewise, the use of community corrections as punishment has increased as an alternative to traditional incarceration. As recently as 2020, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported an increase in women entering the national jail system. This increase of …
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Supervising sex offenders in the community
… research project, which sets out to examine community supervision of men convicted of sexual offences, is the introduction and development of a new model; the Sex Offender Risk Management Approach (SORMA). Essentially, SORMA describes a system of multi-agency risk management of sexual …
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Ethnographic perspectives on youth justice supervision and the supervisory relationship
… children draw meaning and benefit from their community supervision experience within the youth justice system. Yet the intricacies of the supervisory relationship and the nature of everyday supervision in which it develops are little researched. It is therefore critical to deepen our …
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Jail diversion : the Michigan mental health code and assisted outpatient therapy
… population with 16% to 27% individuals in community supervision, 41% in jails, and 56% in state prisons (Waters et al., 2023). Jail diversion policies and programs serve as an alternative to entering the criminal justice system. Jail diversion is especially important amid individuals with …