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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
Alternatives to Pretrial Detention: Southern District of Iowa Pretrial December 2010
Amenability to Treatment of Drug Offenders Substance Use September 2003
American Criminal Justice Philosophy Revisited History of probation, Criminology June 2008
American Criminal Justice Philosophy: What's Old-What's New? History of probation June 1999
An Assessment of District Reviews: Implications for Pretrial Services Policy Development and Practice Pretrial, Supervision September 2009
An Assessment of the Capacity to Measure Performance Among the Nation's Prison Systems Prison June 2004
An Empirical Overview of Searches and Seizures for Persons on Federal Post-conviction Supervision Post Conviction, Supervision December 2019
An Employment Intervention for Drug Abusing Offenders Employment/Workforce Dev, Substance Use September 2003
An Evaluation of an In-prison Therapeutic Community: Treatment Needs and Recidivism Program Evaluation, Substance Use September 2019
An Examination of Deterrence Theory: Where Do We Stand? Criminology December 2016
An Examination of the Impact of Criminological Theory on Community Corrections Practice Criminology December 2016
An Exploratory Study of Self-Report Levels of Social Support in Two Justice-Involved Groups Probation September 2021
An Introduction to the Supervision of the Cybersex Offender Cybercrime, Sex Offenders December 2004
An Organizational Readiness Lens for Implementing the Risk-Need-Responsivity Model Evidence-based Practices, Implementation September 2020
Analyzing Bond Supervision Survey Data: The Effects of Pretrial Detention on Self-Reported Outcomes Pretrial, Prison September 2018
Applying Implementation Research to Improve Community Corrections Evidence-based Practices, Supervision September 2011
Approaching the 90th Anniversary of the Federal Probation System: The Federal Probation System: The Struggle to Achieve It and Its First 25 Years History of probation December 2014
Are Pretrial Services Officers Reliable in Rating Pretrial Risk Assessment Tools? Pretrial September 2018
Are the Collateral Consequences of Being a Registered Sex Offender as Bad as We Think? A Methodological Research Note Sex Offenders June 2014
Arming Probation Officers--Enhancing Public Confidence and Officer Safety Probation December 2001
Assessing Customer Service Satisfaction with U.S. Pretrial Services, District of Nebraska Pretrial June 2004
Assessing the Case for Formal Recognition and Expansion of Federal Problem-Solving Courts Reentry, Federal Courts December 2016
Assessing the Impact of the District of Connecticut’s Support Court Using Propensity Score Analysis Substance Use December 2021
Assessing the Inter-Rater Agreement of the Level of Service Inventory Revised (LSI-R) Risk Assessment December 2004
Assessing the Role of Clinical and Actuarial Risk Assessment in an Evidence-based Community Corrections System: Issues to Consider Risk Assessment, Evidence-based Practices September 2006