Courts and legislative bodies across the United States have sought to implement strategies to increase the use of community supervision and decrease the use of detention during pretrial. However, appropriately supervising individuals in the community represents a substantive challenge. Pretrial supervision agencies must assess the public safety risk an individual poses to the community and develop a plan that can best address the risks and needs of the individual on supervision. It is important to understand how combinations of supervision requirements during pretrial affect the likelihood of an individual experiencing a new arrest—a proxy for community safety—as this information could be used to develop more effective pretrial supervision plans.
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