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.