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2 results foundAuthor: Jannetta, Jesse Title: Kiosk Supervision for the District of Columbia Summary: The majority of people involved with the criminal justice system are under community supervision. In 2009, 5 million of the 7.2 million individuals under some form of criminal justice system control were supervised in the community (Glaze 2010). Although all individuals under supervision are required to report regularly to their supervising officer, the intensity and structure of supervision varies considerably according to the risk of reoffense. Managing this population to facilitate their success in becoming law-abiding citizens is a huge challenge for community supervision agencies across the country as they struggle to distribute scarce resources across their supervised population without diluting interventions and monitoring to the point of ineffectiveness. Providing the appropriate level of supervision and intensity of treatment based on an individual’s assessed risk and need is the key to meeting that challenge. One supervision method that states and localities across the nation have adopted to supervise low-risk offenders and pretrial defendants efficiently is kiosk supervision. Kiosk systems can replace in-person reporting requirements, are convenient for both supervisees and supervision agencies, and help shift resources to moderate- and high-risk probationers and parolees who need more intensive interventions and monitoring. With supervision budgets under increasing stress and caseloads rising, these aspects of kiosk supervision systems are highly attractive. In 2008, the Court Supervision and Offender Services Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA) set out to implement a kiosk reporting pilot program for the probationers and parolees the agency supervises. CSOSA engaged the Urban Institute to conduct an outcome evaluation of the pilot. Due to software integration problems, implementation was delayed, and the Urban Institute instead conducted a simulated analysis. The simulation was designed to identify, if possible, low-risk offenders who posed the same risk whether supervised passively (i.e., with a minimal compliance reporting requirement or Kiosk reporting) or actively (i.e., in-person reporting to community supervision officers). After the simulation analysis was complete, the Urban Institute co-sponsored (with the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council for the District of Columbia) a symposium titled The Risk Principle in Action: Right-Sizing Supervision Monitoring for High- and Low-Risk Offenders. The symposium presented an overview of research on kiosk supervision for low-risk supervisees and global positioning system (GPS) monitoring for higher-risk offenders as examples of different technology-based approaches used to allocate supervision resources according to offender risk level. Local criminal justice leaders joined the symposium to address issues raised and discuss implications for the future direction of practice in the District. This brief draws upon and summarizes findings from both the simulation and the symposium. It discusses the capabilities of kiosk supervision technology, how kiosk supervision fits within a broader risk reduction supervision strategy, challenges of kiosk implementation, and empirical evidence regarding kiosk supervision impacts. It concludes with recommendations for implementation of a kiosk supervision system in the District of Columbia. Details: Washington, DC: Urban Institute, Justice Policy Center, 2011. 8p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 28, 2011 at: http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412314-Kiosk-Supervision-DC.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412314-Kiosk-Supervision-DC.pdf Shelf Number: 121149 Keywords: Alternatives to IncarcerationLow-Risk OffendersOffender Supervision (Washington, D.C.)ParoleesPretrial DefendantsProbationers |
Author: Gehring, Krista S. Title: Are Needs Related to Pretrial Outcomes? An Examination of the Hamilton County Inventory of Need Pretrial Screening Tool Summary: In recent years, there have been ever increasing numbers of individuals entering into the criminal justice system. Because of this, criminal justice professionals and researchers have become progressively more concerned about the phenomenon of individuals continually cycling through the system. Pretrial service agencies are afforded a unique opportunity to address this issue at the “gateway” of the criminal justice system. It is possible that identifying and addressing pretrial needs could interrupt this cycle and contribute to pretrial success. Furthermore, attention to gender-responsive needs at this stage of the criminal justice process may prove beneficial for female pretrial defendants. While evidence-based practices in the pretrial field have begun to emerge, there has been little inquiry into pretrial needs and their subsequent influence on pretrial outcomes. This dissertation contributes to both the pretrial and gender-responsive literature by investigating the existence of gender differences of pretrial needs and whether these needs are predictive of pretrial outcomes. Examination of domains included in the Hamilton County Inventory of Need Pretrial Screening Tool afforded an opportunity to identify and examine the needs of 266 pretrial defendants from Hamilton County, Ohio. Results indicate there are gender differences in the substance, prevalence, co-occurrence of the needs of pretrial defendants; many of the examined needs are risk factors for pretrial failure; and gender-responsive pretrial risk factors are important in predicting pretrial outcomes. In all, this study demonstrates the importance of examining pretrial needs and their potential contribution to pretrial failure. Details: Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati, 2011. 303p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed June 26, 2012 at: http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1321641724 Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1321641724 Shelf Number: 125398 Keywords: Female OffendersPretrial DefendantsPretrial Release (Ohio) |