RT Article
T1 Making the decision to extend probation supervision at a local agency
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 63
IS 13
SP 1712
OP 1730
A1 Medina, Justin C.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1577763211
AB The response to a probation violation is often a shared decision between the probation officer and the supervising judge. The result of this decision is a range of possible outcomes. One violation outcome examined here was extended supervision lengths in lieu of incarceration. This decision has been overlooked by prior research but is important to ensure equitable treatment of probationers. This study examined behavioral and organizational factors that resulted in extended supervisions for 6,034 probationers within a large county agency. On average, supervision extensions for these probationers lasted approximately 2 months (62.08 days). The decision-making framework partially explains these extensions because officers had access to poor client behavior indicators. The practical and policy implications of these findings are discussed.
K1 Decision making
K1 Community supervision
K1 Probation
K1 Supervision length
K1 Intermediate sanction
K1 Bewährung
K1 Bewährungsverstoß
K1 Überwachung
DO 10.1177/0011128716674702