Using Police Officers to Enhance the Supervision of Juvenile Probationers: An Evaluation of the Anchorage CAN Program

2002 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Giblin
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Juvenile Probation ◽  
Intensive Supervision ◽  
Technical Violations ◽  
Intensive Supervision Probation ◽  
Juvenile Probationers

This study presents an evaluation of the Anchorage Coordinated Agency Network (CAN) program. The program combined the capacities of both the Anchorage Police Department and the Anchorage Office of Juvenile Probation to enhance the overall levels of supervision that juvenile probationers received. Consistent with research from intensive supervision literature, the CAN evaluation found that juveniles participating in the program were more likely to have new technical violations but no more likely to have new charges when comparedto juveniles on regular probation. These findings support intensive supervision probation literature suggesting that increased supervision and surveillance lead to increased levels of probation violations.

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.

An Experimental Evaluation of the Impact of Intensive Supervision on the Recidivism of High-Risk Probationers

2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan M. Hyatt ◽  
Geoffrey C. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Survival Analysis ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Experimental Evaluation ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Intensive Supervision ◽  
Offense Type ◽  
Technical Violations ◽  
Intensive Supervision Probation ◽  
Home Visitations ◽  
The Impact

This article reports the results of an experimental evaluation of the impact of Intensive Supervision Probation (ISP) on probationer recidivism. Participants, who were assessed at an increased likelihood of committing serious crimes and not ordered to specialized supervision, were randomly assigned to ISP ( n = 447) or standard probation ( n = 385). ISP probationers received more restrictive supervision and experienced more office contacts, home visitations, and drug screenings. After 12 months, there was no difference in offending. This equivalence holds across multiple types of crimes, including violent, non-violent, property, and drug offenses, as well as in a survival analysis conducted for each offense type. ISP probationers absconded from supervision, were charged with technical violations, and were incarcerated at significantly higher rates. Policy implications for these results are discussed.

Stated and Latent Functions of ISP

1990 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Tonry
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Probation Officers ◽  
Intensive Supervision ◽  
Intensive Supervision Probation ◽  
Reducing Recidivism

The available evidence suggests that intensive supervision probation (ISP) programs do not achieve their stated goals of substantially reducing prison crowding, saving public monies, or reducing recidivism. Many probation officers and departments support ISP enthusiastically, however, and its more punitive features are strictly enforced in many jurisdictions. The proliferation of ISP in the United States in the last decade appears to have had less to do with its stated goals than with its effectiveness at achieving latent bureaucratic, organizational, political, professional, and psychological goals of probation departments and officers.

Evaluating Intensive Supervision Probation/Parole (ISP) for Drug Offenders

1992 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Turner ◽  
Joan Petersilia ◽  
Elizabeth Piper Deschenes
Keyword(s):  
Drug Testing ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
Drug Offenders ◽  
Intensive Supervision ◽  
Technical Violations ◽  
Des Moines ◽  
Drug Counseling ◽  
Randomized Field Experiment ◽  
Intensive Supervision Probation

This article reports results from a recently completed randomized field experiment testing the effects of intensive supervision probation/parole (ISP) for drug-involved offenders. The ISP demonstration project, funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, included five jurisdictions: Contra Costa, California; Seattle, Washington; Des Moines, Iowa; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Winchester, Virginia. Jurisdictions developed ISP programs tailored to their own contexts, using the general ISP model developed by Georgia and New Jersey in the early 1980s. Results show that ISP offenders were seen more often, submitted more often to drug testing, received more drug counseling, and had higher levels of employment than their counterparts on routine probation/parole supervision. With respect to 1-year recidivism outcomes, a higher proportion of ISP offenders had technical violations (primarily for drug use), but there was no difference between the two study groups in new criminal arrests. At the end of the 1-year follow-up, more ISP offenders had been placed in jail or prison (mostly for technical violations). This policy drove up system costs, which for ISP averaged just under $8,000 per year per offender versus about $5,500 per year per offender for routine supervision. The article concludes with a discussion of how these results can be used to inform future ISP research and policy discussions.

Conditions That Permit Intensive Supervision Programs to Survive

1990 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Petersilia
Keyword(s):  
Field Test ◽  
Demonstration Project ◽  
Intensive Supervision ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Intensive Supervision Probation ◽  
Serious Offenders

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) has provided funding to jurisdictions across the nation to participate in an Intensive Supervision Probation/Parole Demonstration Project. The demonstration project is designed to be a field test of a model based on the Georgia Intensive Supervision Program (ISP), which essentially requires much closer control and monitoring of serious offenders than regular supervision imposes. Sites were instructed to implement the basic Georgia ISP model but to tailor the program specifics to their local needs, resources, and clientele. Over two years have passed since the initial demonstration projects were funded. Some of these have fared well; others have been or are being phased out; and some are surviving, but with uncertain futures. This article identifies the nine conditions that seem to have been critical to the implementation and viability of ISPs. It further argues that how the ISP was developed and implemented affects its survival (and ultimate success) as much or more than its content does.

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