Evaluation of Intensive Probation in Milwaukee, 1980-1981
Description
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the results and
impact of a two-year experiment in innovative probation practices in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After being classified according to the Wisconsin
risk and needs assessment scale, individuals who had been sentenced to
probation between January 2, 1980 and June 30, 1981 and had reported to
the probation department for intake were randomly assigned to one of
eight experimental and control groups. The experiment was limited to
adult residents of Milwaukee County who were not already on probation,
were not judged to be severe psychotic or severe sex-deviant cases, and
were not assigned to jail work-release sentences of more than ten days
followed by probation (Huber cases). There are three files in this data
collection: the Reassessment file, the Admissions/Terminations file,
and the Chronological file. Each case in the Reassessment and
Admissions/Terminations files represents data on an individual
probationer. There are 84 variables for 1343 cases in the Reassessment
file and 218 variables for 1922 cases in the Admissions/Terminations
file, both files have logical record lengths of 100 characters. Of the
1922 cases for which admissions data were collected (about 133
variables), 397 cases also have termination data available (an
additional 85 variables). Cases in the Chronological file are records
of probation agent contacts with probationers over the course of the
study. There are 17 variables for 47,169 cases (contacts) in this file
which includes information on 1781 probationers. As many as 270
contacts with a single probationer are recorded. This file has a
logical record length of 80.
Resources
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ICPSR08276.v1 |
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08276.v1 |
Tags
- probation
- criminal-justice-system
- program-evaluation
- probationers
- probation-officers
- probation-conditions