Helen Braithwaite, Theresa Lavery, Holly Westfall & Susan Turner, University of California, Irvine
This is a brief summary report of the parole agents’ activity logs from the “Parole Agent Workload Study.”
Supervising Female Parolees: Agent Survey Results from the Workload Study
April 26, 2017 by
Supervising Female Parolees – Agent Survey Results from Workload Study
Helen Braithwaite, Theresa Lavery, Holly Westfall & Susan Turner, University of California, Irvine
This is a brief summary report of the surveys from the “Parole Agent Workload Study.”
2016 Juvenile Justice Outcome Evaluation Report
February 23, 2017 by
2016-Division-of-Juvenile-Justice-Outcome-Evaluation-Report-2-21-2017
Produced by the Center for Evidence-Based Corrections, University of California, Irvine and The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Accuracy of Risk Assessment in Corrections Population Management: Where’s the Value Added?
November 29, 2016 by
In the book Handbook on Risk and Need Assessment: Theory and Practice, Drs. James Hess and Susan Turner’s chapter compares the predictive power of two instruments and three methods to test improvements in predictions for Felony and Violent Felony recidivism for a release cohort of nearly 100,000 California offenders. They also hypothecized on some common limitations (with the domains captured) in the accuracy of the current recidivism risk assessments.
More information on the book can be found here: Handbook on Risk and Need Assessment – Theory and Practice
Counties need to help parolees access health care
November 29, 2016 by
Lois Davis (RAND Corporation) and Susan Turner (University of California, Irvine)
San Francisco Chronicle, November 22, 2016
California’s Public Safety Realignment Act (AB109), transferred the responsibility for many nonviolent offenders from the state prison system to county jail or local probation. Most efforts to understand the effects of this law have understandably focused on jails, courts and public safety. But at Rand we focused on another key challenge to inmates’ successful re-entry — the health of such returning offenders and their need for physical, mental health and drug treatment.
To view article click here: Counties need to help parolees access health care