A Dual Experiment in Intensive Community Supervision: Minnesota's Prison Diversion and Enhanced Supervised Release Programs

1995 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH PIPER DESCHENES ◽  
SUSAN TURNER ◽  
JOAN PETERSILIA
Keyword(s):  
Public Safety ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Community Supervision ◽  
Diversion Program ◽  
Intensive Supervision ◽  
National Institute Of Justice ◽  
Supervised Release

In 1990, Minnesota enacted legislation to implement an intensive community supervision program as an alternative both to prison and to routine parole. The National Institute of Justice funded RAND to evaluate the program. This article reports on two randomized field experiments designed to measure the implementation and impact of the programs. Detailed information on offender background, services received, and 1-year outcomes was collected for 300 participants. Results showed that the programs were fairly well implemented. Two-year follow-up results indicated that prison-diversion offenders under intensive community supervision posed no greater risk to public safety than those initially sentenced to prison. The prison-diversion program resulted in savings of about $5,000 per offender per year, but these savings were offset by the greater cost of intensive supervision for parolees.

Predictive Accuracy of Dynamic Risk Factors for Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Sex Offenders

2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 856-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Helmus ◽  
Kelly M. Babchishin ◽  
Julie Blais
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Predictive Accuracy ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Community Supervision ◽  
Relationship Stability ◽  
Dynamic Risk Factors ◽  
Dynamic Risk ◽  
Aboriginal Offenders

Although Aboriginal offenders are overrepresented in Canadian prisons, there is limited research examining the extent to which commonly used risk factors and risk scales are applicable to Aboriginals. Aboriginal ( n = 88) and non-Aboriginal ( n = 509) sex offenders on community supervision were compared on the dynamic risk factors of STABLE-2007. Data on sexual, violent, any crime, and any recidivism (including breaches) were collected with an average follow-up of 3.4 years. Aboriginal offenders scored significantly higher than non-Aboriginal offenders on STABLE-2007 total scores and on several items measuring general criminality. STABLE-2007 did not significantly predict recidivism with Aboriginal offenders (although it did for non-Aboriginals). The general antisociality items were generally significantly less predictive for Aboriginals than non-Aboriginals, whereas items assessing sexual self-regulation and relationship stability predicted similarly for both groups. These exploratory results suggest that Aboriginal sex offenders are a higher-needs group but that some STABLE-2007 items are not predictive with this population.

Conceptualizing the Personal Touch: Experiential Knowledge and Gendered Strategies in Community Supervision Work

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Welsh
Keyword(s):  
Public Safety ◽  
Prisoner Reentry ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
Probation Officers ◽  
Community Supervision ◽  
Depth Interviews

Tasked with a fractured institutional mandate of ensuring public safety while facilitating the rehabilitation of their criminalized clients, community supervision workers exercise a considerable amount of discretion in how to achieve these goals. Yet much remains unknown about these workers’ strategies for doing so, which are informed by experiential knowledge and social identities—what I call the “personal touch.” Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with California state parole agents and county probation officers as part of a larger ethnographic inquiry of prisoner reentry, I apply a feminist lens to analyze how workers leverage personal aspects of themselves that they value to manage the impossibilities of their work. My findings show how workers employ a personal touch to connect with clients in meaningful ways, but also how these approaches are built on normative assumptions about gender.

Executive Summary of Rand's Study, “Granting Felons Probation: Public Risks and Alternatives”

1985 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Petersilia ◽  
Susan Turner ◽  
James Kahan ◽  
Joyce Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Executive Summary ◽  
Prediction Of Recidivism ◽  
Research Recommendations ◽  
Intensive Surveillance

This article summarizes the major findings of a recent Rand study designed to discover whether felony probation presents unacceptable risks for public safety and, if so, what the system could do to overcome those risks. To this end, it sought to establish how effective probation has been for a sample of felony probationers, identify the criteria courts use to decide whether a convicted felon gets a prison or probation sentence, discover whether the prediction of recidivism could be improved, and see if the system could develop a felony sentencing alternative that poses less risk for public safety. The results show that two-thirds of those sentenced to probation in Los Angeles and Alameda, California, were rearrested during a 40-month follow-up period. We conclude that the criminal justice system needs an alternative form of punishment intermediate between prison and probation. We describe such a program that incorporates intensive surveillance with substantial community service and restitution. The article concludes with several policy and research recommendations.

Intensive Supervision Probation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey C. Barnes ◽  
Jordan M. Hyatt
Keyword(s):  
Research Interest ◽  
Community Supervision ◽  
Criminal Offenders ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Intensive Supervision ◽  
Technical Violations ◽  
Criminogenic Needs ◽  
Intensive Supervision Probation ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
And Control

Intensive Supervision Probation (ISP) is a form of community supervision that employs smaller caseloads, more frequent contacts, and a variety of other mechanisms to increase the level of surveillance and control for those on criminal probation. While this approach has seen successive waves of research interest, the evidence on its effectiveness seems relatively disappointing. Most existing studies have shown that ISP produces very little reduction in recidivism, while also being more costly to deliver. In addition, ISP’s surveillance mechanisms result in more frequent detection of technical violations, leading to a greater use of incarceration. Despite these disappointing findings, however, there is some potential for ISP to be used in a positive way. Recent developments in assessing both the risk of offending and the criminogenic needs of individual probationers, combined with shifts in the philosophical foundations of community supervision, suggest that ISP could prove to be a useful and productive tool when targeted at the most advantageous population of criminal offenders.

Socialize More, Pay Less: Randomized Field Experiments on Social Pricing

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haibing Gao ◽  
Subodha Kumar ◽  
Yinliang (Ricky) Tan ◽  
Huazhong Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Price Discrimination ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Social Cost ◽  
Customer Acquisition ◽  
Price Differentiation ◽  
Fresh Food ◽  
Food Retailer ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms

We propose social pricing, a novel pricing framework under which consumers with higher social capital enjoy a better price. Conceptually, social pricing enables firms to achieve price discrimination based on a consumer’s social value. This is in sharp contrast with traditional price discrimination strategies where price differentiation typically hinges on consumers’ personal value. We design and conduct two randomized field experiments on a leading online fresh food retailer to understand the value of social pricing. Social pricing has been commonly credited for its effectiveness in new customer acquisition. Interestingly, our study reveals that it is also highly effective on existing consumers. Our analysis shows that social pricing can increase an online retailer’s profit by 40% solely from existing consumers, compared with regular firm-offered discounts. Exploration of the underlying mechanisms reveals that perceived engagement and social cost are the main drivers, which not only help to increase purchasing frequency but also induce higher order value per purchase. In a follow-up experiment, we vary the rules of social interactions by requiring heterogeneity in consumers’ purchasing frequencies. The results suggest that a heterogeneity-based strategy can further amplify the benefits of social pricing.

Acquisition of LINE Digital Social Media Evidence Using the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Method

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Gede Pawitradi ◽  
I Ketut Gede Suhartana
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mobile Forensics ◽  
National Institute Of Justice ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Over Time

Nowadays the use of social media has developed very rapidly over time. With very easy to use and also higher security than ordinary messaging services, making one of the factors of social media is very often used in today's world. But behind it all, social media such as LINE is very vulnerable to become one of the crime facilities, one of which is cyberbullying. To follow up on the cyberbullying activity, a forensic cellphone needs to be carried out to find evidence which is then useful to send to court. This study uses the LINE application as cyberbullying crime media, as well as using the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) method. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) method has five basic stages namely, preparation, collection, examination, analysis, and reporting. In this study using the MOBILedit Forensic tool, and DB Browser for SQLite. It is hoped that the research carried out can help in solving cyberbullying on social media LINE on mobile forensics

scholarly journals Conservation value of cacao agroforestry for amphibians and reptiles in South-East Asia: combining correlative models with follow-up field experiments

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 823-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Wanger ◽  
Akbar Saro ◽  
Djoko T. Iskandar ◽  
Barry W. Brook ◽  
Navjot S. Sodhi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Conservation Value ◽  
Correlative Models
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