Search Results for evidence-based practices

...J. Richard Couzens © The Ohio State University Realignment and Evidence-Based Practice: A New Era in Sentencing California Felonies I. The Catalyst for Change Prior to 2011, California s sentencing system was typical of those in other jurisdictions: misdemeanors were punished by con nement...

... substance use issue, and what are some of the collateral consequences to testing that may offset any perceived or real benefit to the practice. Drug testing evidence-based practices probation community supervision substance use disorder revocations © The Ohio State University General Practice...

... vary and suggest evidence-based practices involving drug screening could be helpful to improve compliance with conditions and increase trust towards supervision agencies and courts. Opinions towards obligatory drug screens ranged from fear to one of gratitude. A common theme emerged: when drug tests...

... partnerships to expand the research capacity of the Commission to use these data. The application of evidence-based practices—of harnessing the power of data to develop policy and support decision making—will be demonstrated through a discussion of four Commission projects: construction and validation...

.... A collaborative view of public safety, LEAD initiatives coordinate high level system players while engaging communities in ensuring better outcomes on an individual and community level. LEAD has been established in jurisdictions across the United States and continues to expand. An evidence-based practice, LEAD...

... refusal to sentence based on assumptions about defendants and their conduct, and his insistence on empirical data, expert evaluations, and asking the hardest questions about motivation and future behavior before imposing sentence. It focuses on Judge Weinstein’s sentencing practices in terrorism and child...

...James A. Wilson Abstract Project Greenlight was a prison-based reentry program developed by the Vera Institute of Justice in 2000–2001 that was associated with negative program effects. This article reviews the basics of the program and the results of the evaluation, along with more recent evidence...

... with methamphetamine sentences. Judges cited at least twenty- ve times their belief that the methamphetamine guidelines were not based on empirical evidence, while two comments relatedly portrayed the methamphetamine guidelines as arbitrary in nature. In about fteen cases, courts more speci cally rejected the ratio...

... had all been charged by their military chains-of-command after sufficient evidence indicated culpability, and in two of the cases, military juries (“panels”) consisting of high-ranking officials with combat experience had convicted the officers and sentenced them to hefty federal prison terms...

... rehabilitation efforts or to change offender behavior. The concepts of recidivism reduction and evidence-based practice are never mentioned in a 1996 discussion of the changing role of probation in California s criminal justice system.20 The focus on control and surveillance resulted in probation officers...

...Roger K. Warren © The Ohio State University The Most Promising Way Forward: Incorporating Evidence-Based Practice into State Sentencing and Corrections Policies ROGER K. WARREN President Emeritus National Center for State Courts A 2006 survey of state chief justices conducted by the National...

... began with evidence-based practices that have been empirically tested in controlled studies and proven effective. The model was designed to complement in-prison treatment by allowing participants to address sobriety and other criminogenic risk factors after their release, when support for meeting...

... meaningful effort to positively influence the offender s future behaviors and asserted that the the most promising way forward was to incorporate basic principles of evidence-based practice (EBP) into sentencing policies.1 Other than noting that the state chief justices had called for similar reforms...

... is the development of evidence-based sentencing practices in the state courts: sentencing practices that are effective in reducing offender recidivism. I served as a state trial judge in Sacramento, California for twenty years before retiring in 1996 to assume the presidency of the National Center for State Courts...

... to help supervision agencies or local jurisdictions begin implementing or enhancing the evidence-based practices shown to produce improved outcomes. For example: Illinois provided planning grants of up to $30,000 to the ten pilot sites to convene stakeholders, analyze data, and complete a local plan...

..., California should adopt evidence-based sentencing practices for mediumrisk to high-risk offenders, as a way to more effectively reduce recidivism. The average practitioner might be surprised to learn that the foregoing passage was written a mere two years after the enactment of the California Determinate...

... are the goals of supervision, and what should they be? How can supervision be made more effective, without needlessly leading to prison? Are the length and the terms of supervision overly onerous? The contributions in this Issue of FSR indicate that research and evidence-based practices are providing new...

... at implementing evidence-based practices that have the bene t of expert and organized guidance have a much higher, and much quicker, success rate at implementation.8 So, what many states need to focus on is implementation guidance to translate planning into action and achieve statewide reductions...

... of their legislative packages. Reinvestment has funded a wide range of priorities, including victims services, drug and other problem-solving courts, community behavioral health treatment, county incentive grant programs, law enforcement grants, training on evidence-based practices, and risk assessment tool...

... to effective programs;11 a growing body of evidence documenting interventions that have been shown to be effective at reducing the risk of recidivism, and a strong set of experience at successfully changing policy and practice to provide those evidence-based interventions targeted at reducing the risk...