Evaluation of the Implementation and Impact of the Massachusetts Intensive Probation Supervision Project, 1984-1985
Description
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness
of an Intensive Probation Supervision (IPS) program on high-risk
offenders. The IPS program was characterized by four changes in usual
procedures: (1) increased supervision, (2) risk/needs assessment for
substance abuse, employment, and marital/family relationships, (3)
stricter enforcement of probation, and (4) a four-stage revocation
procedure for technical violations. The investigators also studied
whether the additional caseload of the probation officers who
implemented the IPS program reduced the number of supervision contacts
with non-IPS probationers under normal minimum, moderate, and maximum
supervision regimens. Offenders put on IPS probation in 1985 from 13
experimental courts were compared to high-risk offenders put on
regular probation in the experimental courts in 1984, and to high-risk
offenders on regular probation from 13 control courts for both 1984
and 1985. Data were derived from risk assessment forms,
needs/strengths assessment forms, probation supervision records, and
criminal history data obtained from the state's probation central
field. For each offender, a full range of data were collected on (1)
offender risk characteristics at initial, four-month, ten-month, and
termination assessments, (2) offender needs characteristics at the
same intervals, (3) probation officer/offender contact chronologies
for the entire one-year follow-up period, and (4) offender prior
criminal history and recidivism during a one-year follow-up period.
Resources
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ICPSR09970.v1 |
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09970.v1 |
Tags
- probation
- probationers
- property-crimes
- probation-officers
- risk-assessment
- arrest-records
- caseloads
- criminal-histories
- offenders