Implementing Evidence Based Practices in Probation Departments

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Implementing Evidence Based Practices in
Probation Departments
Presented By Natalie Pearl, Ph.D.
(Natalie.Pearl_at_SDCounty.ca.gov) Director of
Research, San Diego County Probation
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By the end of this training you will have the
tools to

• Understand the Infrastructure Needed to Implement
  EBP
• Locate appropriate research using the internet
• Understand the elements of research design
• Evaluate the research that you find

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Target Intervention

• Risk Principle
• Prioritize supervision and treatment resources
  for higher risk offenders
• Need Principle
• Target Interventions to criminogenic needs
• Responsivity principle
• Be responsive to treatment, learning style,
  motivation, culture and gender when assigning
  programs
• Dosage
• structure 40-70 of high risk offenders time for
  3-9 months
• Treatment
• integrate treatment into the full sentence/
  sanction requirement

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Research Summary Table
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Internet Resources
NIC/CJI Implementing Effective Correctional
Management of Offenders in the Community Outcome
and Process Measure Development Published Date
2004 File Size 361.54 KB File Type   PDF
Informational elements needed for outcome
measures, system process measures, program
measures, and individual performance measures for
evidence based practices, system process measures
for organizational development, and system
process measures for collaboration are clarified.
Each element is delineated by its required or
recommended use, components, definition,
tool/data source, description, frequency, and who
collects the data.
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Research Summary Table
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WWW.EndNote.Com
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Statistics What do you really need to know?

• Uni-variate Statistics describe
• Bi-variate shows association/ relationship
• Multivariate indicates a causal relationship and
  helps predict outcomes

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Goals, Outputs, Outcomes Indicators

• Goals
• Highest level Improve Community Safety
• Outcome
• What your program will achieve
• What your clients are getting
• Output
• What your organization / officers are doing
• Indictors
• how you know what your officers are doing

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Youthful Offender Program

• Goal
• Reduce crime committed by youth age 18-24
• Outcome
• Increase employment/education of YOP participants
  within 60 days of case assignment
• Decrease Drug Use by YOP participants after 90
  days of supervision
• Output
• Make multiple referrals for employment /
  education each week until employed
• Verify participation in AOD programs / Random
  drug tests
• Indictors
• Count of referrals by officer / participant
• Tally AOD logs / negative tests

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Making Outcomes Measurable

• The XYZ program will improve functioning of its
  clients
• Probationers who receive intensive supervision
  will have reduced recidivism
• DUI check points will reduce drunk driving in our
  county

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Still Sorta Fuzzy??

• What do you need to know to answer the question
• Do Youthful Offenders supervised on a YOP
  caseload commit fewer crimes than similar youth
  on traditional caseloads?
• Do DUI check points reduce drunk driving?
• What is the recidivism rate for juveniles
  released from Juvenile Hall?

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Vision for the Future

• With the support of knowledgeable IT and
  Business managers, Probation Departments across
  the state will base policy and programming
  decisions first and foremost on information
  collected through valid and accurate research and
  will collect evidence that will allow for the
  verification or refutation of the continued use
  of these programs.