NCJ Number
252510
Journal
Criminal Justice and Behavior Volume: 45 Issue: 3 Dated: 2018 Pages: 402-420
Date Published
2018
Length
4 pages
Annotation
This study describes the development and refinement of a practical measure for use by community supervision staff to assess the extent to which individuals under community supervision perceive the supervision process as fair.
Abstract
Seven items functioned statistically and theoretically well. Results showed a clear, one-factor structure. The resulting measure demonstrated significant relationships with supervision outcomes for both crime and technical violations across two independent community supervision samples. This practical measure is grounded in theory and provides supervision agencies with a tool to measure the degree to which the interactions between supervisees and officers are positive and prosocial and facilitate outcomes that are perceived as legitimate. Findings are framed within the "what works" corrections literature, and the important, yet under-researched theory of procedural justice as it related to community corrections settings. (publisher abstract modified)