Multicultural Competencies in Probation: Issues and Challenges
The vast numbers of persons currently being supervised under probation sentences are a diverse group who exhibit a wide variety of treatment and supervision concerns that probation officers are expected to address. The questions and issues addressed in this article speak directly to the role of multicultural competencies in probation as officers supervise this diverse group of offenders.
Robert A. Shearer, Patricia Ann King
Interagency Priorities at the Crossroads: Aftercare Among Drug Users
Three-quarters of the inmates housed in state and federal prison in 1997 could be categorized as alcohol- or drug-involved, yet only about 20 percent of those within six months of release report having received treatment. The recent focus on reentry draws attention to the issue of treatment after release from prison and the more general topic of collaboration between various criminal justice agencies in addressing reentry requirements.
Bernadette Pelissier, Timothy Cadigan
Electronic Monitoring of Domestic Violence Cases: A Study of Two Bilateral Programs
The criminal justice system has been using electronic monitoring for about 20 years, typically as a form of house arrest, an alternative sanction, or in the context of pretrial release. The authors examine the use of EM for victim protection in domestic violence cases.
Edna Erez, Peter R. Ibarra, Norman A. Lurie
The Imposition of Economic Sanctions in Philadelphia: Costs, Fines, and Restitution
The author examines fines, costs, and restitution in Philadelphia during the seven-year period 1994–2000, looking at breakdowns of crimes and distinguishing those in which private individuals and businesses were the victims from those in which the State was the victim. He also tracks relationships among the awarding of the different kinds of economic sanctions.
R. Barry Ruback
Private and Public Sector Prisons: A Comparison of Select Characteristics
This study compares the private and public prison sectors on a number of characteristics, including correctional officer wages and retention rates, staff-to-inmate ratios, frequency of institutional violence, etc. Findings are used to place the sectors upon an ideological continuum showing the degree to which each subscribes to the correctional philosophies of eligibility and normalization.
Curtis R. Blakely, Vic W. Bumphus
Listening to Victims: A Critique of Restorative Justice Policy and Practice in the United States
This research seeks to discern the victim role in restorative justice policy and practice in the U.S. through direct consultation with victims, their advocates and victim service providers. The authors discuss the theory and reality of restorative justice, including difficulties in implementation and features of good practice.
Harry Mika, Mary Achilles, Ellen Halbert, Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz, Howard Zehr
In Cold Blood Revisited: A Look Back at an American Crime
In November 1959, four members of the Clutter family were murdered in their home in Holcomb, Kansas—the result of a planned burglary by two parolees. The crime, which became the subject of Truman Capote's best-selling "non-fiction novel" In Cold Blood, was widely considered to mark a watershed in the national perception of American violence.
Sally J. Keglovits
High Anxiety Offenders in Correctional Settings: It's Time for Another Look
The authors accumulate evidence across four studies that find neurotic offenders of particular interest to correctional practitioners and policy makers because of these offenders' poor adjustment to prison, high recidivism rates, and poor performance in cognitive skills intervention.
Shelley Johnson Listwan, Kimberly Gentry Sperber, Lisa Murphy Spruance, Patricia Van Voorhis
An Assessment of the Capacity to Measure Performance Among the Nation's Prison Systems
This research assessed the current capacity of departments of corrections to participate in a national reporting system, finding that almost all prison systems possess the capacity to measure and report about the aggregate prisoner population under supervision, while most also collect information about escapes, homicides, and suicides. Beyond these measures, significant disparity exists.
Kevin N. Wright
Assessing Customer Service Satisfaction with U.S. Pretrial Services, District of Nebraska
The authors assessed customers' attitudes toward the quality of service provided by Pretrial Services in the District of Nebraska, including among these "customers" defendants, judges, U.S. attorneys, U.S. marshals, defense attorneys, alcohol and drug treatment staff, and U.S. Probation.
Mindy S. Bare, Dana L. Miller, Travis E. Wilcoxen