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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
Prosecution by Military Commission versus Federal Criminal Court: A Comparative Analysis Federal Courts June 2011
Psychopathy: A Primer for Correctional Professionals Mental Health June 2024
Punitive Juvenile Justice Policies and the Impact on Minority Youth Juveniles December 1999
Racial Disparity in Federal Pretrial Detention Recommendations: Trends Over Two Decades and Association with Risk Assessment Implementation Pretrial, Risk Assessment September 2024
Rapid Involuntary Client Engagement Evidence-based Practices, Implementation, Risk Assessment December 2020
Recent Developments in the Imposition, Tolling, and Revocation of Supervision Federal Courts, Supervision September 2022
Reconsidering the Responsivity Principle: A Way to Move Forward Evidence-based Practices, Responsivity September 2014
Redemption at a Correctional Turning Point: Public Support for Rehabilitation Ceremonies Post Conviction, Recidivism June 2020
REDUCE: The Six Aims of Financial Investigations for Probation Officers Fines, Fees, and Restitution June 1998
Reducing Alcohol-Related Crime Electronically Substance Use September 2001
Reducing Recidivism Through Probation Supervision: What We Know and Don't Know from Four Decades of Research Evidence-based Practices, Supervision, Training September 2013
Reducing Unnecessary Detention--A Goal or Result of Pretrial Services? Pretrial December 2001
Reentry Challenges During a Pandemic: An Examination of NJ S2519 from the Perspectives of Community Organizers Reentry September 2021
Reentry Intitiatives: A Study of the Federal Workforce Development Program Employment/Workforce Dev December 2012
Reflecting on Parole's Abolition in the Federal Sentencing System Federal Courts, Parole, Sentencing September 2017
Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of the Pretrial Services Act Pretrial September 2007
Remote Location Monitoring--A Supervision Strategy to Enhance Risk Control Location Monitoring September 2001
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
Reorganizing Care for the Substance Using Offender--The Case for Collaboration Substance Use September 2003
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
Research 2 Results (R2R)--The Pretrial Services Experience Evidence-based Practices, Pretrial September 2008
Residential Drug Treatment for High-Risk Probationers: Evaluating the Link Between Program Integrity and Recidivism Probation, Recidivism, Substance Use June 2019
Responding to Probationers with Mental Illness Mental Health, Probation September 2012
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
Restorative Circles: A Reentry Planning Process for Hawaii Inmates Restorative justice June 2006