Alternatives to incarceration
NIJ Multisite Impact and Cost-Efficiency Evaluation of Veterans Treatment Courts, Fiscal Year 2022
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NIJ’s Courts Research: Examining Alternatives to Incarceration for Veterans and Other Policy Innovation
Development of a Testable Logic Model for Community Supervision Home and Field Contacts
Public Policy and Prison Populations - Measuring Opinions About Reform
Evaluation of Day Reporting Centers for Parolees Outcomes of a Randomized Trial
Opening Pandora's Box: How Does Defendant Race Influence Plea Bargaining?
Reintegrating Juvenile Offenders Into the Community: OJJDP's Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Demonstration Program
Identifying Those Who Served - Modeling Potential Participant Identification in Veterans Treatment Courts
Micro And Macro-Level Assessment Of Juvenile Justice Placement Reform In Ohio: Final Technical Report
Leveraging Technology To Enhance Community Supervision: Identifying Needs To Address Current and Emerging Concerns
Evaluating the Impact of Probation and Parole Home Visits
Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better: Lessons from Community Courts
Change doesn't come easy, particularly within an institution as large and complex as the criminal justice system. Greg Berman, Director of the Center for Court Innovation, offered lessons from several efforts to make reform stick in criminal justice settings. In particular, he focused on the development of community courts — experimental court projects that are attempting to reduce both crime and incarceration in dozens of cities across the U.S. and around the world.
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Alternative Sentencing Policies for Drug Offenders - Panel at the 2009 NIJ Conference
Reforming New Orleans' Criminal Justice System: The Role of Data and Research
With its criminal justice system in disarray following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans invited the Vera Institute of Justice to examine the city's court and jail operations. For five years, Vera has been tracking arrest-to-first-appearance time, custodial arrests versus summonses, the granting of pretrial release, and many other decision-making points. Based on analysis of these data, Vera is making policy recommendations to assist with the implementation of new procedures and to ensure performance monitoring.
Alternative Sentencing Policies for Drug Offenders
The panel presentations from the 2009 NIJ Conference are based on an NIJ-sponsored evaluation of the effectiveness of Kansas Senate Bill 123, which mandates community-based drug abuse treatment for drug possession by nonviolent offenders in lieu of prison.
Discussing the Future of Justice-Involved Young Adults
New science in brain development is transforming young adult involvement with the justice system. On Tuesday, September 8, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Assistant Attorney General Karol Mason, and experts from NIJ and the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice who serve on the Executive Session on Community Corrections discussed the future of justice-involved young adults.
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What Works in Offender Supervision
This NIJ Conference Panel highlights findings from NIJ projects that evaluated strategies to enhance the supervision of offenders in the community. Researchers discuss the effectiveness of fair, swift and certain sanctions for high-risk probationers in the Hawaii HOPE program. Panelists also provide empirical evidence on the effectiveness of electronic monitoring — including the use of GPS tracking — for medium- and high-risk offenders on supervision and upon completion of their supervision sentence.
Testing What Works in Probation: Replicating HOPE
NIJ's Eric Martin discusses the Institute's ongoing evaluation of the HOPE program for drug-involved offenders.
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Crime File: Restitution and Community Service
This Crime File video examines the development of new methods for restitution is providing sentencing alternatives to fines, probation, or imprisonment.
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