Responding to Parole and Probation Violations: A Handbook to Guide Local Policy Development

This handbook discusses policy responses to probation and parole violations that enhance the effectiveness of supervision while also improving community safety. 

Chapters include: 

• Critical issues in violations -- an overview; 
• The importance of vision, mission, goals, and core values; 
• Collaboration -- a central ingredient for success; 
• Developing baseline information; 
• Supervision; 
• Developing tools to make the policy work; 
• Increasing available choices to violation response; 
• Outcome-based interventions; 
• Monitoring the impact of the policy; 
• And tangible outcomes.