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Federal Probation Journal

Federal Probation Journal, published each June, September, and December, presents current thought, research, and practice in corrections, community supervision, and criminal justice.

Article Title Topic Date
Reducing Recidivism Through Probation Supervision: What We Know and Don't Know from Four Decades of Research Evidence-based Practices, Supervision, Training September 2013
Changing Probation Officer Attitudes: Training Experience, Motivation, and Possible Revival Evidence-based Practices, Probation, Training September 2013
Capitalizing on Collaboration in Arizona: Working Together to Advance the Use of Evidence-Based Officer Skills at All Levels of Community Corrections Evidence-based Practices, Training September 2013
7 Keys to "Make EBPs Stick": Lessons From the Field Evidence-based Practices, Training September 2013
Overcoming Legal Barriers to Reentry: A Law School-Based Approach to Providing Legal Services to the Reentry Community Reentry, Supervision September 2013
Using Quality Improvement Models in Correctional Organizations Evidence-based Practices, Management September 2013
Policy Implications of Police-Probation/Parole Partnerships: A Review of the Empirical Literature Probation, Parole June 2013
Community Management of Offenders: The Interaction of Social Support and Risk Supervision June 2013
Creating a Supervision Tool Kit: How to Improve Probation and Parole Supervision, Evidence-based Practices, Training June 2013
Using Research to Improve Pretrial Justice and Public Safety: Results from PSA's Risk Assessment Validation Project Pretrial, Risk Assessment June 2013
Officer Stress Linked to CVD: What We Know Mental Health, Training June 2013
When a Person Isn't a Data Point: Making Evidence-Based Practice Work Evidence-based Practices December 2012
Inmates Who Receive Visits in Prison: Exploring Factors that Predict Prison December 2012
Reentry Intitiatives: A Study of the Federal Workforce Development Program Employment/Workforce Dev December 2012
Offender Workforce Development Specialists and Their Impact on the Post-Release Outcomes of Ex-Offenders Employment/Workforce Dev December 2012
Collaboration in Juvenile Justice: A Multi-Agency Study Juveniles December 2012
Development and Implementation of a Case Review Conference Model for Juveniles: A Structured Approach to Learning from Unsuccessful Probationers Evidence-based Practices December 2012
The Importance of Coaching: A Brief Survey of Probation Officers Evidence-based Practices, Training September 2012
The Re-validation of the Federal Pretrial Services Risk Assessment (PTRA) Pretrial, Risk Assessment September 2012
The Eastern District of Michigan: How Does It Consistently Achieve High Release Rates? Federal Courts, Pretrial, Supervision September 2012
I Had a Dream: Alternatives to Prison Solution Program (APS) in the Southern District of California Pretrial September 2012
The Evolution of Community Supervision Practice: The Transformation from Case Manager to Change Agent Supervision, Probation September 2012
Responding to Probationers with Mental Illness Mental Health, Probation September 2012
U.S. Pretrial Services: A Place in History History of probation, Pretrial September 2012
Contemporary Origins of Restorative Justice Programming: The Minnesota Restitution Center Restorative justice September 2012