RT Article
T1 Facilitators of Practitioner Adherence to a Risk/Need Assessment Tool: Hypothesis Testing on a Survey of Juvenile Probation Officers
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 64
IS 16
SP 1757
OP 1778
A1 Miller, Joel 1975-
A2 Maloney, Carrie
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1738742024
AB We used a statewide survey to test hypotheses about the predictors of juvenile probation officers’ adherence to the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (YLS/CMI) risk/need assessment (RNA) tool, focusing on (1) the consistency and quality with which officers completed the tool, and (2) the extent to which they used it in decisions. While some hypotheses had been tested in prior quantitative studies, others were based on insights from case studies. Results showed that leadership and climate variables were consistently important in predicting adherence, though these tended to operate indirectly through their effects on other facilitators. Probation officer attitudes, either toward the YLS/CMI or to evidence-based practices, were also important across adherence measures. Although inconsistent in their effects across dependent variables, quality assurance of officer decision-making, external office relationships, and county YLS/CMI policies also predicted adherence.
K1 Risk/need assessment
K1 Implementation science
K1 Juvenile probation
K1 Risk-need-responsivity model
K1 Evidence-based policies
DO 10.1177/0306624X20936188