Appropriateness Statement Package
Transform Your Practice By Using Guidelines Informed by Research, Staff and Justice-Involved Individuals
Community supervision agencies are responsible for managing diverse populations with a range of offending behaviors such as shoplifting, violence or intimate partner violence, drug use, or involvement with street gangs. Complicating the picture are characteristics of the clients themselves.
Click below to search guidelines on 20 common supervision practices.
Veronica Cunningham, Executive Director/CEO of American Probation and
Parole Association
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Learn How We Developed These guidelines
C.J. Appleton and Ben Mackey provide an overview of supervision guidelines.
Practice Guidelines for Special Populations
Video: JoAnn Lee and Olivia Stuart discuss best practices for young adults.
Video: Gary Cuddeback discusses best practices for individuals with mental illness.
Video: Scott Walters discusses best practices for individuals with Substance Use Disorder.
PDF: The issue of Federal Probation with a collection of articles on supervision special populations.
Authors
Faye S. Taxman, PhD
JoAnn S. Lee, PhD, MSW, MPA
CJ Appleton, MS
Benjamin J. Mackey, MA
Advisory Panel
Gary Cuddeback, PhD, MSW, MPH
Denise Hines, PhD
Raymond Chip Tafrate, PhD
Scott T. Walters, PhD
Acknowledgements
Created with funding from Arnold Ventures.
The authors would like to thank the probation staff and justice-involved individuals who gave critical insight to this project. We would also like to thank the advisory panel—Drs. Gary Cuddeback, Denise Hines, Raymond Chip Tafrate, and Scott Walters—for their time and dedication to the project. Finally, we thank Arnold Ventures for their support of the project.
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