A Ten-Step Guide to Transforming Probation Departments to Reduce Recidivism
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
Aug. 17, 2011
ANNOTATION: This guide will “help probation officials refocus the agency toward reducing crime and re-offense rates among probationers … [and] provide an action plan for realizing the practices of recidivism reduction” (p. viii). Action is taken over three phases--setting the agenda for change, redesigning department policies and practices, and implementing procedures to ensure quality and monitor progress. The ten steps are: engage and inform key stockholders; review and evaluate current departmental policies and practices, analyze the evaluation and develop a mechanism for overseeing change; improve probationer screening and assessment processes; align supervision plans with screening and assessment results; redesign incentive and sanctioning strategies; develop recidivism-reduction training; develop and implement a process- and outcome-accountability system; retool the personnel evaluation system to reinforce agency-wide recidivism-reduction efforts; and review progress and set goals for continuous improvement.
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