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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
Higher Education and the Recruitment, Training, and Retention of Community Corrections Personnel in the Coming Era of Criminal Justice Reform Evidence-based Practices, Probation, Training September 2021
How Dangerous Are They? An Analysis of Sex Offenders Under Federal Post-Conviction Supervision PCRA, Sex Offenders, Supervision September 2016
How Far Have We Come? The Gluecks' Recommendations from 500 Delinquent Women Prison, Criminology, History of probation June 2014
How Much Risk Can We Take? The Misuse of Risk Assessment in Corrections Risk Assessment September 2006
How Pretrial Incarceration Diminishes Individuals' Employment Prospects Disparity, Employment/Workforce Dev, Pretrial December 2022
How Principles of High Reliability Organizations Relate to Corrections Management, Prison December 2009
How to Prevent Prisoner Re-Entry Programs From Failing: Insights From Evidence-Based Corrections Reentry, Evidence-based Practices December 2006
How Today's Prison Crisis is Shaping Tomorrow's Federal Criminal Justice System Probation, Prison, Federal Courts September 2015
Huikahi Restorative Circles: A Public Health Approach for Reentry Planning Restorative justice June 2010
Hurricane Katrina: Resiliency, The Other Side of Tragedy Mental Health December 2006
I Had a Dream: Alternatives to Prison Solution Program (APS) in the Southern District of California Pretrial September 2012
Identifying the Predictors of Pretrial Failure: A Meta-Analysis Pretrial September 2011
Imagining Sentinel Event Reviews in the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services System Supervision, Probation September 2016
Implementation and Impact of the Central District of California's Suicide Prevention Program for Federal Sex Crime Defendants Mental Health, Pretrial, Sex Offenders June 2012
Implementation Fail: A Case Study Evidence-based Practices, Implementation, Juveniles, Program Evaluation September 2022
Implementation Teams: The Missing Link for Scaling and Sustaining Effective Practice Implementation September 2020
Implementing Evidence-based Practices in Federal Pretrial Services Evidence-based Practices, Pretrial September 2009
Implementing a Diversion-to--Treatment Law in California: Orange County's Experience Substance Use, Federal Courts December 2011
Implementing Gender-Responsive Treatment for Women in Prison Prison December 2010
Implementing Pretrial Services Risk Assessment with a Sex Offense Defendant Population Pretrial, Risk Assessment, Sex Offenders September 2009
Implementing Risk Assessment in the Federal Pretrial Services System Pretrial, Risk Assessment September 2011
Improving Legitimacy in Community-Based Corrections Criminology, Supervision June 2014
Improving Offender Success and Public Safety Through System Reform Reentry September 2004
Improving the Employment Rate of Ex-Prisoners Employment/Workforce Dev June 2005
In Cold Blood Revisited: A Look Back at an American Crime Criminology June 2004