Offender services
Project Safe Neighborhoods: Strategic Interventions - Offender Notification Meetings (Case Study 2)
Residential Treatment Home for Developmentally Disabled Sex Offenders: One Community's Response (From Managing Adult Sex Offenders: A Containment Approach, P 16.1-16.15, 1996, Kim English, Suzanne Pullen, and Linda Jones, eds. - See NCJ-162392)
California Prison Downsizing and Its Impact on Local Criminal Justice Systems
Problem-Solving Approaches to Homicide: An Evaluation of the Indianapolis Violence Reduction Partnership
SMART Offenders
Confronting Relapse and Recidivism: Case Management and Aftercare Services in the OPTS Programs
Improving Access to Services for Female Offenders Returning to the Community
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.
What Works in Probation and Parole
How can we prevent reoffending and reduce costs? Research points to a number of solutions. At the Tuesday plenary, Judge Steven Alm from Hawaii will describe his successes with hard-core drug offenders. “Swift and sure” is his motto. West Virginia Cabinet Secretary James W. Spears will discuss the issues from his state's perspective, and Adam Gelb, Director of the Pew Charitable Trust's Public Safety Performance Project, will lend a national overview.