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• What Works/Does Not Work in Reentry

  As Federal, state, and local governments look toward reentry programming as a means to improve outcomes for prisoners returning to the community, researchers are beginning to produce results regarding the effectiveness of these efforts. The Pennsylvania... Posted May 28 2008, 08:39 AM by Eileen Conway with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Reentry, Research, What works

• What Works in Reducing Recidivism and Preventing Crime?

  The literature on What Works has a major new addition. " What Works: Effective Recidivism Reduction and Risk-Focused Prevention Programs" was prepared by Roger Przybylski, RKC Group for the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice, but the literature... Posted Mar 10 2008, 10:05 AM by Eileen Conway with | with no comments Filed under: What works, Literature reviews

• Hot Best Practices Tool-Kits

  The Institute for Excellence in Justice has been very busy this week, catching up on posting the Best Practices Tool-Kits out of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's Ohio Institute on Correctional Best Practices. New on the site... Posted Dec 31 2007, 11:22 AM by Eileen Conway with | with no comments Filed under: What works, Sex offenders, Offender Employment, Evidence-Based Practices, Faith-Based Programs

• What Constitutes A "Good" Study, Part Deux

  The guidelines are posted! I previously wrote about Public Safety Canada's work in defining guidelines for evaluating research study quality, and the detailed guidelines are now online. While specifically addressing sexual offender treatment outcome... Posted Oct 24 2007, 09:59 AM by Eileen Conway with | with no comments Filed under: Research, What works, Sex offenders, Evaluation

• A Cogent Look at Offender Assessment and Rehabilitation

  A new report from James Bonta and D.A. Andrews, Risk-Need-Responsivity Model for Offender Assessment and Rehabilitation , reviews the evolution of offender assessment instruments and rehabilitation theories. Looking at the role of the risk-need-responsivity... Posted Oct 18 2007, 02:57 PM by Eileen Conway with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: What works, Risk assessment, Rehabilitation

• Are We Having An iCrime Wave? Plus, Helping Drug-Involved Juveniles

  The Urban Institute has been busy, posting two new reports on diverse topics. With the new FBI statistics showing violent crime up in 2005 and 2006, the Institute takes an interesting look at how iPods and other portable media devices might be driving... Posted Sep 27 2007, 10:03 AM by Eileen Conway with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: What works, Juvenile offenders, Crime rates

• What Works With Juvenile Offenders? Plus, A Major Report on Sex Offenders

  The Washington State Institute for Public Policy has done it again, this time with a newly-posted report documenting six juvenile programs identified as evidence-based. Evidence-Based Juvenile Offender Programs: Program Description, Quality Assurance... Posted Sep 13 2007, 09:07 AM by Eileen Conway with | with no comments Filed under: What works, Sex offenders, Juvenile offenders

• Reentry in a Nutshell for Decisionmakers

  We appreciate in-depth research, but we're even more appreciative when that research is summarized beautifully for speedy review. The Urban Institute has gone one better by releasing a concise summary of research that it hasn't even published... Posted May 24 2007, 09:06 AM by Eileen Conway with | with no comments Filed under: Reentry, What works, Recidivism

• What Constitutes a "Good" Study?

  In an era of evidence-based practices, the question of research quality should be on everyone's radar. The Canadian office, Public Safety Canada, is tackling this issue head-on. Although focusing on sexual offender treatment research, a new report... Posted Mar 28 2007, 09:27 AM by Eileen Conway with | with no comments Filed under: Research, What works, Sex offenders, Evaluation

• Research Meets Pragmatism: A Policymakers' Guide to Reconsidering Incarceration

  With the FBI reporting violent crime on the rise nationwide, the Vera Institute of Justice has just issued a timely report tackling the thorny issue of the effectiveness of increased incarceration as a strategy for combating crime. Reconsidering Incarceration... Posted Jan 31 2007, 12:12 PM by Eileen Conway with | with no comments Filed under: What works, Incarceration rates

• Factoring in Treatment Dropouts

  An important issue in research on the effectiveness of correctional treatment programs is the tricky influence of non-completers on research outcomes. The Correctional Service of Canada has just posted two studies addressing dropouts: Estimating Risk... Posted Jan 09 2007, 08:43 AM by Eileen Conway with | with no comments Filed under: Research, What works

• Evidence-Based Ways to Avoid Prison Construction - What Works to Save Money?

  The Washington State Institute for Public Policy, which last January gave us an extraordinary review of what works in adult correctional programs , now tackles the question of evidence-based options to reduce future need for prison beds in a new report... Posted Nov 06 2006, 11:38 AM by Eileen Conway with | with no comments Filed under: What works

• Our Starting Point - Does Criminal Justice Work?

  Very interesting work about the effectiveness of corrections and criminal justice has been coming out of Great Britain for several years, with applicability to similar discussions in the United States. Now we have a new report from Britain's Crime... Posted Nov 01 2006, 09:40 AM by Eileen Conway with | with no comments Filed under: What works