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Showing posts with label criminal justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label criminal justice. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Monday, September 7, 2015
'What on Earth Can This Possibly Mean'? French Reentry Courts & Experts' Risk Assessment
Against the backdrop of ten years of punitive criminal justice policies, the number of cases in which risk assessments by psychiatrist experts are mandatory has considerably increased in France. Because of complex and deeply ingrained cultural factors, most experts and academics oppose the use of actuarial or other structured judgement tools, which they assimilate to these policy changes. Parallel to this, the reentry judges in charge of making release and other community sentence decisions have maintained a strong rehabilitative and desistance-focused culture.
Drawing on interviews with these judges and experts, the author wanted to assess the judges' expectations of experts' reports, their opinion on actuarial tools, and how they perceived experts and their aptitude to assess risk.
The study showed that French reentry judges manage to keep experts' conclusions at bay when they do not fit with their desistance goals, as they can draw upon their own expertise and that of probation services. They do not have much faith in the professionalism and methodology of experts, and would like them to better demonstrate how they reach their conclusions. Moreover, criminogenic needs assessment would be much more useful to them than static risk assessment, which raises the issue as to why this is not the French probation services' role.
Reentry judges who never encountered a report which uses a structured tool are influenced by the French ideological debate; those who have read such reports are unanimously in favour of such tools. It thus seems clear that they would like experts to be more strongly guided by science, but are not yet fully aware of what this entails.
Via: http://ht.ly/RUiHL
By: Herzog-Evans M1.
Drawing on interviews with these judges and experts, the author wanted to assess the judges' expectations of experts' reports, their opinion on actuarial tools, and how they perceived experts and their aptitude to assess risk.
The study showed that French reentry judges manage to keep experts' conclusions at bay when they do not fit with their desistance goals, as they can draw upon their own expertise and that of probation services. They do not have much faith in the professionalism and methodology of experts, and would like them to better demonstrate how they reach their conclusions. Moreover, criminogenic needs assessment would be much more useful to them than static risk assessment, which raises the issue as to why this is not the French probation services' role.
Reentry judges who never encountered a report which uses a structured tool are influenced by the French ideological debate; those who have read such reports are unanimously in favour of such tools. It thus seems clear that they would like experts to be more strongly guided by science, but are not yet fully aware of what this entails.
Via: http://ht.ly/RUiHL
By: Herzog-Evans M1.
- 1University of Reims, Law faculty, 57 bis rue Pierre Taittinger, CS 80005, 51096 REIMS Cedex, France. Electronic address: martineeevans@gmail.com.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Most Americans support rehabilitation compared to ‘tough on crime’ policies
Below: Where Americans Prefer Criminal Justice Resources Allocated
Below: Percentage of Americans Who Prefer Rehabilitative to Punitive Policies
Below: Effect of Significant Factors on Preference for Rehabilitative versus Punitive Policies
Read at: http://bit.ly/1Ubofo4 HT https://twitter.com/LSEUSAblog
Below: Percentage of Americans Who Prefer Rehabilitative to Punitive Policies
Below: Effect of Significant Factors on Preference for Rehabilitative versus Punitive Policies
Read at: http://bit.ly/1Ubofo4 HT https://twitter.com/LSEUSAblog
Friday, August 21, 2015
Mass Probation: Toward a More Robust Theory of State Variation in Punishment
Below: Supervision Rate Rankings
Read at (PDF): http://goo.gl/5V7VD5
MT https://www.pop.umn.edu/index.php
HT https://twitter.com/PrisonPolicy
Read at (PDF): http://goo.gl/5V7VD5
MT https://www.pop.umn.edu/index.php
HT https://twitter.com/PrisonPolicy
Monday, August 10, 2015
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Efficacy of a Process Improvement Intervention on Inmate Awareness of HIV Services
Below: Model of Implementation Science Outcomes (Modified from Proctor et al. 2009).
The prevalence of HIV among U.S. inmates is much greater than in the general population, creating public health concerns and cost issues for the criminal justice system. The HIV Services and Treatment Implementation in Corrections protocol of the NIDA funded Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies cooperative tested the efficacy of an organizational process improvement strategy on improving HIV services in correctional facilities. For this paper, we analyzed efficacy of this strategy on improving inmate awareness and perceptions of HIV services. The study used a multi-site (n=28) clustered randomized trial approach. Facilities randomized to the experimental condition used a coach-driven local change team approach to improve HIV services at their facility. Facilities in the control condition were given a directive to improve HIV services on their own. Surveys about awareness and perceptions of HIV services were administered anonymously to inmates who were incarcerated in study facilities at baseline (n=1253) and follow-up (n=1048). A series of one-way ANOVAs were run to test whether there were differences between inmates in the experimental and control facilities at baseline and follow-up. Differences were observed at baseline, with the experimental group having significantly lower scores than the control group on key variables. But, at post-test, following the intervention, these differences were no longer significant. Taken in context of the findings from the main study, these results suggest that the change team approach to improving HIV services in correctional facilities is efficacious for improving inmates’ awareness and perceptions of HIV services.
Via: http://ht.ly/QfmOt HT @VeteransHealth
*Primary focus and outcomes of larger HIV-STIC study
**Primary outcomes for the current study (not in the original Proctor et al. figure)
The prevalence of HIV among U.S. inmates is much greater than in the general population, creating public health concerns and cost issues for the criminal justice system. The HIV Services and Treatment Implementation in Corrections protocol of the NIDA funded Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies cooperative tested the efficacy of an organizational process improvement strategy on improving HIV services in correctional facilities. For this paper, we analyzed efficacy of this strategy on improving inmate awareness and perceptions of HIV services. The study used a multi-site (n=28) clustered randomized trial approach. Facilities randomized to the experimental condition used a coach-driven local change team approach to improve HIV services at their facility. Facilities in the control condition were given a directive to improve HIV services on their own. Surveys about awareness and perceptions of HIV services were administered anonymously to inmates who were incarcerated in study facilities at baseline (n=1253) and follow-up (n=1048). A series of one-way ANOVAs were run to test whether there were differences between inmates in the experimental and control facilities at baseline and follow-up. Differences were observed at baseline, with the experimental group having significantly lower scores than the control group on key variables. But, at post-test, following the intervention, these differences were no longer significant. Taken in context of the findings from the main study, these results suggest that the change team approach to improving HIV services in correctional facilities is efficacious for improving inmates’ awareness and perceptions of HIV services.
Via: http://ht.ly/QfmOt HT @VeteransHealth
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