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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
Risk, Need, and Responsivity Supervision in the Pandemic Evidence-based Practices, Responsivity, Risk Assessment June 2021
Risk Assessment and Sex Offender Community Supervision: A Context-Specific Framework Risk Assessment, Sex Offenders September 2006
Revising the Pretrial Risk Assessment (PTRA): Promising Options Pretrial, Risk Assessment September 2024
Revalidating the Federal Pretrial Risk Assessment Instrument (PTRA): A Research Summary Pretrial, PTRA September 2018
Rethinking the Assumptions About Boot Camps Prison June 1998
Results-Based Management in Federal Probation and Pretrial Services Evidence-based Practices September 2008
Results-based Framework for Post-conviction Supervision Recidivism Analysis Supervision December 2010
Restoring Justice to the Community: A Realistic Goal? Restorative justice June 2001
Restorative Practices in Institutional Settings and at Release: Victim Wrap Around Programs Restorative justice June 2009
Restorative Justice Systemic Change: The Washington County Experience Restorative justice December 2004
Restorative Justice Dialogue: The Impact of Mediation and Conferencing on Juvenile Recidivism Restorative justice, Juveniles December 2005
Restorative Circles: A Reentry Planning Process for Hawaii Inmates Restorative justice June 2006
Response to Duriez, Cullen, and Manchak: Theory and Evidence on the Swift-Certain-Fair Approach to Enforcing Conditions of Community Supervision Supervision, Criminology September 2014
Responding to Probationers with Mental Illness Mental Health, Probation September 2012
Residential Drug Treatment for High-Risk Probationers: Evaluating the Link Between Program Integrity and Recidivism Probation, Recidivism, Substance Use June 2019
Research 2 Results (R2R)--The Pretrial Services Experience Evidence-based Practices, Pretrial September 2008
Reprint in Honor of the 90th Anniversary of the Federal Probation System: The Federal Probation and Pretrial Services System Since 1975: An Era of Growth and Change Probation, History of probation, Federal Courts December 2015
Reorganizing Care for the Substance Using Offender--The Case for Collaboration Substance Use September 2003
Removal of Non-scored Items from the Post Conviction Risk Assessment Instrument: An Evaluation of Data-driven Risk Assessment Research within the Federal System PCRA, Probation, Risk Assessment September 2017
Remote Location Monitoring--A Supervision Strategy to Enhance Risk Control Location Monitoring September 2001
Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of the Pretrial Services Act Pretrial September 2007
Reflecting on Parole's Abolition in the Federal Sentencing System Federal Courts, Parole, Sentencing September 2017
Reentry Intitiatives: A Study of the Federal Workforce Development Program Employment/Workforce Dev December 2012
Reentry Challenges During a Pandemic: An Examination of NJ S2519 from the Perspectives of Community Organizers Reentry September 2021
Reducing Unnecessary Detention--A Goal or Result of Pretrial Services? Pretrial December 2001