Recently added articles from Federal Probation:
Correlates of Re-arrest among Felony Domestic Violence Probationers
Dec 01, 2008; ... DOMESTIC VIOLENCE is one of the most prevalent forms of violent crime to come to the attention of the criminal justice system. In 2004, more than 1,144,900 incidents of domestic assault were reported to the police in the U.S., resulting in over 948,000 arrests (FBI, 2005). Among the arrestees ...
Juvenile Sex Offenders and Sex Offender Legislation: Unintended Consequences1
Dec 01, 2008; ... DURING THE 1990S, growing concerns from sexual offenders regarding public safety prompted legislation to be enacted through- out the United States. The two primary pieces of legislation resulted in sex offender registration and sex offender notification, both of which were designed to promote ...
The Empirical Status of the Level of Service Inventory1
Dec 01, 2008; ... THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE system supervises over 7.2 million offenders of all ages, from diverse backgrounds, and with a variety of individual needs (Glaze & Bonczar, 2007). The individual differences across offenders make it imprudent to take a one-size-fits-all approach to correctional ...
Cognitive Behavioral Intervention with Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders: Some Historical Perspective1
Dec 01, 2008; ... COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL Intervention (CBI) is an increasingly popular strategy for juvenile justice policy makers and practitioners looking for an effective way to meet public expectations for safety, security, and rehabilitation while addressing the various needs of the juvenile offender ...
The Development and Validation of a Pretrial Screening Tool
Dec 01, 2008; ... THE LAST TWO decades have witnessed a sharp increase in the use of offender assessment instruments across every stage of the criminal justice system. The reasons for this increase in use are generally centered on the problems of overcrowding and shrinking monetary resources (Jones, 1996). These ...
The Best Laid Plans: An Assessment of the Varied Consequences of New Technologies for Crime and Social Control1
Dec 01, 2008; ... TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION is a double-edged sword in the field of criminal justice. It has the potential to dramatically improve both the efficiency and the effectiveness of the criminal justice system; but it also has the potential to divert critical resources away from more traditional crime ...
The Franks Case Revisited
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Franks Case Revisited For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Crime that Shocked Chicago. By Simon Baatz. Collins Publishers, New York, 2008, 541 pp., $27.95. It is a story that has been told a number of times before, but perhaps not quite as well as in For the Thrill of It: ...
JUVENILE FOCUS
Dec 01, 2008; ... Technical Assistance Free technical assistance is available to state and local agencies on issues related to evaluating, selecting and procuring electronic monitoring technology as well as implementing, operating, and evaluating an electronic monitoring program. Contact George Drake at ...