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Introduction

  • Introduction
  • How to Use This Guide to Benefit Your Agency
  • Section I: How to Use the Appropriateness Statements to Develop Practice Guidelines
  • Appropriateness Statement Outline
  • Section II: Implementing Practice Guidelines
  • Section III: Building the Working Alliance
  • Section IV: Appropriateness Statements

Contacts

  • Contacts
  • Contacts: Implementation Considerations
  • Types of Contacts
  • Frequency of Contact

Compliance-Based Practices

  • Compliance-Based Practices
  • Overall Compliance-Based Practice Implementation Considerations
  • Collateral and Employer Contacts
  • Drug Testing
  • Electronic Monitoring
  • Financial Restrictions
  • House Arrest
  • Phone-Based Monitoring
  • Restraining Orders

Treatments

  • Treatments
  • Treatment Implementation Considerations
  • Anger Management
  • In-Patient & Out-Patient Treatment
  • Mental Health Screening and Evaluation
  • Substance Use Screening and Evaluation
  • Alcohol and Drug Use Education
  • Cognitive Behavioral Techniques

Motivation Techniques

  • Motivation Techniques
  • Motivational Techniques Implementation Considerations
  • Incentives
  • Prosocial Modeling
  • Sanctions

Additional Components

  • Additional Components
  • Additional Components Implementation Considerations
  • Environmental Restructuring
  • Transportation Resources

Additional Resources

  • Additional Resources
  • Additional Information on Practices
  • References

Glossary

  • Glossary
  • ACE!
  • Appropriateness Statement Package
  • Compliance-Based Practices

Compliance-Based Practices

The following section covers number of compliance-based  (monitoring and oversight) practices. These include employer contacts, collateral contacts, drug testing, electronic monitoring, phone-based monitoring, house arrest, restraining orders, and financial restrictions (fines, fees, restitution). Also provided are implementation recommendation on how organizations can prepare to make changes to their policies on compliance-based practices. Finally, this section contains appropriateness statements which include the results of the empirical evidence analysis.

The following table shows a summary of the results from the evidence analysis. The practices is categorized according to four levels: appropriate, promising, inconclusive, and not evidence-based depending on the amount and type of research available (see Introduction Table 2 for definitions). Also included are the perceptions of individuals working in supervision agencies and individuals that have experience with the justice system to illustrate different views about the contacts. The following table summarizes the evidence level, the probation staff perceptions, and JSI perceptions of the practices in this section.

Table 4

Levels of Support for Compliance-Based Practices

Practice

Research Support

Field Support: Low Risk

Field Support: Med/High Risk

 

 

Probation

JSI

Probation

JSI

Employer Contacts

Collateral Contacts

Drug Testing

Electronic Monitoring

Phone-Based Monitoring

House Arrest

Restraining Orders

Financial Restrictions

Inconclusive

Inconclusive

Evidence-Based*

Inconclusive

Promising

Promising

Inconclusive

Inconclusive

Minimal

Moderate

N/A

Minimal

Moderate

Minimal

Moderate

Moderatea

Minimal

Minimal

Minimalb

Minimal

Minimal

Minimal

Minimal

Minimal

Moderate

Wide

N/A

Moderate

Moderate

Moderate

Moderate

Moderatea

Moderate

Moderate

Moderate

Moderate

Moderate

Moderate

Moderate

Moderate

* = Evidence-based with qualifications
a Probation respondents reported moderate support for fines and fees but wide support for restitution
b JSI respondents reported minimal support for scheduled drug testing but moderate support for random drug testing for low risk

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