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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 Offender and Reentry: Supporting Active Participation in Reintegration Reentry September 2004
The Officer Responses Questionnaire: A Procedure for Measuring Reflective Listening in Probation and Parole Settings Evidence-based Practices September 2008
The Outcomes of a Pretrial Diversion Program in Texas Disparity, Pretrial December 2022
The Potential Effects of Combining Pretrial Supervision Conditions Pretrial, Supervision September 2024
The Predictive Validity of the LSI-R on a Sample of Offenders Drawn From the Records of the Iowa Department of Corrections Data Measurement System Risk Assessment December 2007
The Presumption for Detention Statute's Relationship to Release Rates Pretrial September 2017
The Presumption for Detention Statute's Relationship to Release Rates Revisited: A Replication and Extension Pretrial September 2024
The Pretrial Dashboards: Using Technology to Provide Judges with an Understanding of Their Pretrial Release and Detention Decisions Criminal Justice System, Pretrial December 2023
The Pretrial Services Act: 25 Years Later Pretrial September 2007
The Prevalence of Local Criminal Justice Practices Evidence-based Practices, Pretrial June 2020
The Probation and Pretrial Services Automated Case Tracking System: A Review of Operations Federal Courts June 1998
The Probationer's Perspective on the Probation Officer-Probationer Relationship and Satisfaction with Probation Probation, Supervision June 2012
The Re-validation of the Federal Pretrial Services Risk Assessment (PTRA) Pretrial, Risk Assessment September 2012
The Real-World Application of the Risk Principle: Is It Possible in the Field of Probation? Evidence-based Practices, PCRA September 2016
The Rising Federal Pretrial Detention Rate, in Context Pretrial, Supervision September 2018
The Role of Prerelease Handbooks for Prisoner Reentry Reentry June 2006
The Role of Probation and Parole Officers in the Collaborative Response to Sex Offenders Sex Offenders, Probation, Parole June 2010
The Role of Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation in Evidence-Based "Real World" Community Supervision Evidence-based Practices, Supervision June 2010
The Role of the Federal Probation Officer in the Guidelines Sentencing System Sentencing, Probation December 2001
The State of Sex Offender Probation Supervision in Texas Sex Offenders, Supervision June 2002
The Strengths Perspective: A Paradigm for Correctional Counseling Probation June 1999
The Supervision of Low-risk Offenders: How the Low-risk Policy Has Changed Federal Supervision Practices without Compromising Community Safety Risk Assessment, Supervision, Evidence-based Practices June 2016
The Trials and Tribulations of Implementing What Works: Training Rarely Trumps Values Evidence-based Practices, Training September 2013
The Unique Circumstances of Native American Juveniles Under Federal Supervision Juveniles, Indian Country December 1999
The Use of Location Monitoring at the Post-Conviction Stage of Supervision Location Monitoring, Probation December 2021