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Federal Probation Journal

Federal Probation Journal, published each June, September, and December, presents current thought, research, and practice in corrections, community supervision, and criminal justice.

Article Title Topic Date
The Chief as a Technology Manager Management September 2001
The Construction and Validation of the Federal Post Conviction Risk Assessment (PCRA) PCRA, Risk Assessment September 2011
The Containment Approach to Managing Defendants Charged with Sex Offenses Sex Offenders, Supervision September 2010
The Creation and Validation of the Ohio Risk Assessment System (ORAS) Risk Assessment June 2010
The Demands on Probation Officers in the Evolution of Evidence-Based Practice: The Forgotten Foot Soldier of Community Corrections Evidence-based Practices, Probation September 2013
The Design of Social Support Networks for Offenders in Outpatient Drug Treatment Substance Use September 2003
The Development and Validation of a Pretrial Screening Tool Pretrial, Risk Assessment December 2008
The Development of an Actuarial Risk Assessment for U.S. Pretrial Services Pretrial, Risk Assessment September 2009
The Development of the Evidence-Based Practice Blue Print and Where We Are Now Evidence-based Practices September 2011
The Dual Treatment Track Program: A New "In-House" Jail Diversion Program Substance Use, Mental Health December 2006
The Eastern District of Michigan: How Does It Consistently Achieve High Release Rates? Federal Courts, Pretrial, Supervision September 2012
The Effect of Participatory Management on Internal Stress, Overall Job Satisfaction, and Turnover Intention among Federal Probation Officers Management, Probation June 2009
The Effectiveness of Coerced Treatment for Drug-Abusing Offenders Substance Use June 1998
The Effectiveness of Prison Programming: A Review of the Research Literature Examining the Impact of Federal, State, and Local Inmate Programming on Post-Release Recidivism Evidence-based Practices, Prison, Recidivism, Reentry June 2020
The Effects of Gender on the Judicial Decision of Bail Amount Set Pretrial June 2006
The Effects of Serious Mental Illness on Prisoner Reentry Reentry, Mental Health September 2004
The Emerging Role of Information Technology in Prison Reentry Initiatives Reentry September 2004
The Empirical Status of the Level of Service Inventory Risk Assessment, Probation December 2008
The Evolution of Community Supervision Practice: The Transformation from Case Manager to Change Agent Supervision, Probation September 2012
The Evolution of Supervision in the Federal Probation System Probation, Evidence-based Practices, Supervision September 2008
The Experiences of Offenders in a Prison Canine Program Prison June 2007
The Failure of Correctional Management: Rhetoric Versus the Reality of Leadership Management June 1998
The First 20 Years of Drug Treatment Courts: A Brief Description of Their History and Impact Substance Use June 2008
The Future of Federal Probation (Reprinted from 1950) History of probation September 2015
The History of Training in the Federal Probation and Pretrial Services System History of probation, Training September 2015