Follow ing months o f study by its student affairs committee, the Faculty Senate passed three resolutions at Tuesday night's meeting responding to the Women's Resource Center probation issue. The meeting also saw progress in revising the academic honor code and implementing a new faculty alcohol policy. The Women’s Resource Center (WRC) was given a two-year probation last May by the Office o f ...

We consider an architecture for ultra-dependable operation based on synchronized state machine replication, extended to provide transient recovery and reconnguration in the presence of Byzantine faults. The architecture allows processors suspected of being faulty to be placed on \probation." Processors in this status cannot disrupt other processors, but those that are nonfaulty or recovering fr...

Background Motivational interviewing (MI) is a counseling technique used to elicit change by exploring an individual’s desire and commitment to making changes. In this study, probation clients are randomized to a two-session MI intervention occurring approximately 3–4 weeks apart. The first session primarily focuses on building motivation to change substance use, engage in treatment, and make o...

During the late 20th century, imprisonment rates in United States saw unprecedented growth, leading correctional systems across country to face widespread overcrowding and underfunding. Subsequently, policy makers sought out alternatives incarceration for certain categories of offenses. Community supervision, such as probation, emerged a popular solution both reduce prison jail populations well...

Part of the probation report (11th December 2008): " Intelligent support for learning concepts from examples " Supervisors:

Hawaii’s Honest Opportuni­ ty Probation With Enforce­ ment (HOPE) program was developed in 2004 as a way to create a more transparent and accountable probation system. An initial examination of the new probation model was promising enough to prompt multiple eval­ uations of the HOPE program, including three studies funded by the National Institute of Jus­ tice (NIJ). The latest study — the HOPE...

Some of the complexity of the correctional system is due to our system of government. Correctional programs and facilities can be found at the federal, state, and local levels of government. For example, the Federal Bureau of Prisons — part of the U.S. Justice Department — operates prisons at the federal level. Federal probation is operated by the federal courts. Every state operates a prison s...

It is important that residency programs identify trainees who progress appropriately, as well as identify residents who fail to achieve educational milestones as expected so they may be remediated. The process of remediation varies greatly across training programs, due in part to the lack of standardized definitions for good standing, remediation, probation, and termination. The purpose of this...

This study examines which alleged delinquents in a large urban juvenile court are selected for referral to the court's psychiatric clinic. A number of demographic factors, probation officer impressions, index charges, and past delinquency record variables were examined for all minor delinquency cases referred in a six-month period and for a random selection of nonr.eferred cases. In general, re...