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4 results foundAuthor: Roman, Caterina Gouvis Title: Community Organizations and Crime: An Examination of the Social-Institutional Process of Neighborhoods Summary: This report examines how local, community-based institutions and organizations are linked to social control and crime, in order to inform community development policy, research, and practices for crime control and public safety. Details: Washington, DC: Urban Institute, Justice Policy Center, 2009. 66p., app. Source: Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: Shelf Number: 117565 Keywords: Community OrganizationsCrime AnalysisCrime Control TheoryNeighborhoods and Crime |
Author: Leshnick, Sukey Soukamneuth Title: Evaluation of the Re-Integration of Ex-Offenders (RExO) Program: Interim Report Summary: The Reintegration of Ex-Offenders (RExO) initiative was launched in 2005 as a joint initiative by the Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and the Department of Justice. RExO was set up to strengthen urban communities heavily affected by the challenges associated with high numbers of prisoners seeking to re-enter their communities following the completion of their sentences. It does so by funding employment-focused programs that include mentoring and capitalize on the strengths of faith-based and community organizations (FBCOs). In June 2009, ETA contracted with Social Policy Research Associates (SPR), and its subcontractors MDRC and the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), to conduct a random assignment (RA) impact evaluation of the 24 RExO grantees that had been in operation for more than three years. The RA study largely took place during the fifth year of these grantees' operations. A critical component of this evaluation is an implementation study, which includes two rounds of site visits to each of the 24 RExO grantees and alternative providers in their communities. This report summarizes the key findings from this implementation study; including findings on the community context and general structure of the RExO grantees; their recruitment, intake and enrollment strategies; the RA process itself; the services RExO grantees and their partners provide; the specific partnerships in place to provide services; and the services available through alternative providers (to which comparison group members were referred) in the 24 communities. Details: Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor/ETA, 2012. 167p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 14, 2013 at: http://wdr.doleta.gov/research/FullText_Documents/ETAOP_2012_09.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://wdr.doleta.gov/research/FullText_Documents/ETAOP_2012_09.pdf Shelf Number: 127615 Keywords: Community OrganizationsEx-Offenders, EmploymentFaith-Based OrganizationsOffender Reentry (U.S.)Prisoner ReentryReintegration |
Author: Radcliffe, Polly Title: The development and impact of community services for women offenders: an evaluation Summary: This evaluation examined six services developed in third sector partnerships for women offenders in the community. The study was designed to capture best practice in services which were known to be at risk of funding cuts. The research which included interviews with staff, stakeholders and service users, examination of project documents and the collection of monitoring data, took place in 2011/2012, one year into an initiative to extend the limited network of 'one stop shop' services for low risk women offenders. A number of evaluations had already established the value of providing holistic services to women offenders in women-only settings, particularly for those who have suffered sexual and physical violence. There has however continued to be a shortage of evidence about the impact of these services on reoffending outcomes. As we describe, a combination of factors, including a lack of any common measurement system, has meant that reoffending data have not been consistently collected in the services that took part in our evaluation. We make recommendations for ways in which such services might in the future map women's interim progress; progress that is so richly described in the qualitative accounts of service users, staff and stakeholders. In many ways this evaluation charts the opening of a 'policy window' that we very much hope will not be closed in the new environment of Payment by Results contracts in England and Wales. Deaths of women in custody; lobbying by campaigning groups and charitable organisations; the publication of a series of influential reports describing the exponential rise in the imprisonment of low-risk women offenders and an increasing body of evidence that showed that such imprisonment served to exacerbate the psychological strain, substance misuse and anguish that accompanies so much of women's offending, had created a consensus that made government action possible. Short-term government funds were found for the extension of an existing model of one-stop-shop service for low-risk women offenders. The new network of services was developed in hastily constructed third sector/statutory sector partnerships with the hope that they would become integrated into mainstream commissioning arrangements. As we will show, these new services have been innovative in their linking of third and statutory sector, criminal justice, health and welfare and women-specific agencies. They have achieved much within short timescales and in many ways have presented new challenges in multiagency working. In the current climate of economic austerity and belt tightening, we hope that our report will provide evidence of how such challenges can be overcome and contribute to existing learning on the provision of services for women offenders in the community. Details: London: The Institute for Criminal Policy Research, School of Law, Birkbeck College, 2013. 94p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 24, 2014 at: http://www.icpr.org.uk/media/34025/ReportNuffieldfinal.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.icpr.org.uk/media/34025/ReportNuffieldfinal.pdf Shelf Number: 133406 Keywords: Community OrganizationsCommunity ParticipationFemale Offenders (U.K.)Gender Specific ResponsesOffender Rehabilitation |
Author: Ashwood, J. Scott Title: Evaluation of the Homeless Multidisciplinary Street Team for the City of Santa Monica Summary: In Santa Monica, California, homelessness is a chronic and persistent problem. It is also expensive. Individuals experiencing chronic homelessness suffer disproportionately from serious physical and mental health conditions and are less likely than the general population to seek services to address these conditions. For these reasons, chronically homeless individuals are often repeat users of emergency services - including medical, law-enforcement, and paramedic-response services. This pattern of service use is costly for cities in terms of both dollars and manpower. Assertive community treatment - an approach to homelessness that gets people into affordable housing and provides health care and other support services - can reduce public costs associated with chronic homelessness. In 2016, the City of Santa Monica invested $600,000 into such an approach, creating the Homeless Multidisciplinary Street Team (HMST). The HMST consists of a team of specialists who locate and engage the most-intensive service users among Santa Monica's homeless individuals to help them obtain housing and address other needs. The program aims to reduce the burden on public service providers and diminish associated public costs by lessening the number of times that homeless individuals use public services and interact with public service providers, including police and emergency medical responders. RAND researchers evaluated the program's success in achieving its goals. They used a mixed methods approach that combined a qualitative analysis of the effect of the HMST on important stakeholder groups and a quantitative analysis both of the effect of the HMST on important outcomes and on potential cost savings associated with these effects. Key Findings -- Evaluators found evidence for some success within the HMST, but analyses were limited The HMST has had a positive effect on the clients they serve. The program is viewed within the community as a valuable resource. It estimated that the HMST yielded savings to the City of Santa Monica that offset 17 percent to 43 percent of the investment. Analyses are limited to the outcomes for which data were available; they do not include many financial and nonfinancial benefits associated with the program and so should be viewed as conservative. Recommendations City officials should work with the stakeholders in the community to improve data collection and access for clients of the HMST and a comparison population. Data collection should be expanded to providers outside of the City of Santa Monica to track outcomes beyond the narrow focus of this evaluation. The HMST should provide more information on the effects of its efforts to the other stakeholders in the community. The experience of clients should be evaluated further, with a more focused set of interviews with clients on the effects of the HMST. The HMST should foster early coordination with potential step-down providers to improve the success of handing off clients to them when appropriate. The HMST should reach out to other providers in the community who might be affected by the program. There could be opportunities to partner with other providers in the community that might see changes from the efforts of the HMST. Details: Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2019. 40p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 7, 2019 at: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2848.html Year: 2019 Country: United States URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2848.html Shelf Number: 156321 Keywords: Community OrganizationsHomeless Persons Homelessness Mentally Ill Persons Policing Homeless Persons |