As described by the authors, a recovery-oriented system of care for drug-abusing criminal offenders is one that provides for continuity of treatment, using evidence-based interventions at every stage as clients progress through the justice system. Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities of Illinois has partnered with criminal justice and treatment programs to establish a basic recovery-orie...

A previous review of research on the practice of offender supervision identified the predominant use of interview-based methodologies and limited use of other research approaches (Robinson and Svensson, 2013). It also found that most research has tended to be locally focussed (i.e. limited to one jurisdiction) with very few comparative studies. This article reports on the application of a visua...

Sexual victimization of children and adults is a significant treatment and public policy problem in the United States. To address increasing concerns regarding sex offender recidivism, nine states have passed legislation since 1996 authorizing the use of either chemical or physical castration. In most statutes, a repeat offender's eligibility for probation or parole is linked to acceptance of m...

Despite the prevalence of mentally ill probationers, and probation officers' (POs') central role in their supervision, this is the first reported study to investigate how POs implement mandates to participate in psychiatric treatment. Five focus groups were conducted in major cities with 32 POs and 20 probationers representing a mix of traditional and "specialty" probation agencies. Three key f...

Batterer intervention programs were originally established in the late 1970s as feminists and others called attention to the victimization of women through domestic violence, grassroots programs sprang up, and service providers recognized that the offenders’ behavior needed to be addressed. The requirement that batterers attend intervention programs as a condition of probation or as part of pre...

Little research exists on what works in the supervision of offenders with debt problems. This qualitative study aims to provide insight into barriers probation officers and clients experience during regarding support that need. Interviews were conducted 33 Dutch 16 clients. The results show often negatively influences clients’ lives hinders their resocialization. Probation lack effective method...

Worldwide, more than 30 million people spend time in prison every year.1 The USA incarcerates 25% of these people and one in 31 Americans is currently under correctional control, either in jail, prison, or on probation or parole.2 Most prisoners will eventually be released, and the 2 weeks after release have been shown to be associated with a substantial increase in mortality, especially from o...

When such a well-known authority as Dr. Wm. Healy and the scarcely less famous Dr. Augusta Bronner collaborate in the ?writing of a book on delinquency, it must be regarded as an event of some consequence in the psychological world, and when it is realised that this is by far the most important work which the Judge Baker Guidance Centre has produced, it will be read, as it deserves to be, by ps...

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of family background and preincarceration socioenvironmental variables on three-year post-release drug use for African American and white prison-based drug treatment participants in order to explain the previously found disparities in rates of three-year post-release drug use between the two groups. There were two hypotheses: 1) for both grou...