Parole supervision

Working with Victims of Crime: An Integrated Approach for Community Supervision Professionals

This Guide provides a comprehensive overview of available information on victims’ rights and services.

Successful Parole and Probation Practices

This program interviewed four directors of state parole and probation agencies about successful case completions and protecting public safety.

The Changing Relationship Between Ex-Criminals and Their Parole Officers

This article discusses EPICS, Effective Practices in Community Supervision, and covers the four steps for face-to-face meetings with offenders.

Nebraska’s Justice Reinvestment Approach: Reduce Prison Overcrowding and Expanding Probation and Parole Supervision

This brief covers Nebraska's justice reinvestment initiative designed to reduce prison overcrowding and expand probation and parole.

Addressing Responsivity Issues with Criminal Justice-Involved Native Americans

This article explains how the responsivity issues of Native American (NA) individuals can be effectively addressed.

Mandatory Reentry Supervision: Evaluating the Kentucky Experience

This brief examines the impact a mandatory reentry supervision program has on spending and public safety.

Behavior Management of Justice-Involved Individuals: Contemporary Research and State-of-the-Art Policy and Practice

This paper presents a framework to support the development of effective behavior management systems.

Max Out: The Rise in Prison Inmates Released Without Supervision

This report examines the rise in max-outs and its policy origins, looks at states that are leading on the use of post-prison supervision to protect public safety and reduce costs, and provides a framework to help other states use evidence to inform release and supervision decisions.

Effective Responses to Offender Behavior: Lessons Learned from Probation and Parole Supervision

This report does a great job in explaining how to effectively combine both sanctions and incentives in probation and parole supervision.

The Role of Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation in Evidence-Based “Real World” Community Supervision

The use of Strategy in Training Initiative in Community Supervision (STICS), a comprehensive model for community supervision, is discussed.