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

• NCJ Number: 231583
• Journal: Federal Probation Volume: 74 Issue: 1 Dated: June 2010 Pages: 2-15
• Author(s): Guy Bourgon; James Bonta; Tanya Rugge; Terri-Lynne Scott; Annie K. Yessine
• Date Published: June 2010
• Length: 14 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This study examined key challenges and issues in offender rehabilitation.

Abstract

Results show that Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision (STICS) will provide insight and further guidance into how to effectively transfer empirical knowledge into the real world of community corrections. The study offers a brief overview of the "what works" from literature within the context of community supervision. Next identified are some of the critical issues and challenges that are commonly faced by efforts to bring "what works" practices to the clinical supervision of offenders in the community. Many of the issues were considered in the design of the STICS, a comprehensive model with an implementation strategy to transfer "what works" knowledge into the real world of everyday community supervision. The study concludes with a description of how the issues were addressed through STICS and how the efforts to determine success were evaluated. Tables and references