Intensive Probation Supervision: Controlling Crime and IncarcerationAn evaluation of one state's (Arizona) intensive supervision program. Focuses on the extent to which intensive supervision was effective in controlling criminal behavior & whether intensive supervision was a cost-saving alternative to incarceration. Charts & tables. |
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Arizona arrest levels arrests among offenders arrests and revocations Class of Offense control criminal behavior controlling crime County Differences County IPS program court crime control directly sentenced Distribution of Offenders felony Implications for Policy incarceration Intensive Probation Supervision intensive supervision program intermediate sanctions IPS and Prison IPS and Probation IPS groups IPS offenders IPS officers IPS Program Operations IPS reinstated IPS IPS Risk Scores IPS sentence IPS supervision level of supervision March 15 Maricopa and Pima Maricopa County IPS months Number of Prior numbers of offenders Offender Characteristics offender's offenders reinstated offenders sentenced parole percent of offenders percentage period Pima County IPS Policy and Evaluation prison group Prison or IPS prison sample probation department probation group probation officer probation violation reinstated IPS direct reinstated to IPS sentenced to IPS sentenced to prison sentenced to probation sentenced to standard sentencing option standard probation subsequent to sentencing Table Type of Offense
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Page 1 - announce its contents earlier, we plan no furth< distribution of this report until 30 days from its date of issue. We will then make copies available to interested organizations, as appropriate, and to others upon request. If you have any questions or would like additional information, please call me at (202)
Page 8 - group of programs referred to collectively as intermediate sanctions. These programs get their name from the fact that the sanctions they impose on offenders are typically more severe than standard probation and less severe than traditional incarceration. Examples of intermediate sanctions include electronic monitoring (where the offender wears an anklet or bracelet that
Page 1 - in appendix IV. Sincerely yours, Eleanor Chelimsky Assistant Comptroller General Executive Summary Purpose Background The
Page 2 - sanctions they impose on offenders are typically more severe than standard probation or parole and less severe than traditional incarceration.
Page 59 - from this pool. (We assumed that offenders sentenced to more than 6 years of prison had not been released by March 1990—after less than 3 years of incarceration.) We obtained a list of 234 offenders sentenced to prison for 6 years or less during the July-September 1987 period. Of these 234 offenders, 160 had been released by March
Page 8 - program that involves frequent—sometimes daily—contacts between program officers and offenders). The exact nature of the sanctions imposed by these programs varies greatly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, even within program type. Intermediate sanction programs have proliferated—all states currently have them—despite the absence of good information on how well they work. Do they actually save money when compared to incarceration?
Page 60 - Some of the offenders on the list were actually sentenced to terms of more than 6 years. *There were 86 offenders sentenced to 6 years of prison or less during the 3-month period in 1987 who were not included in the list It is unknown how many of these offenders were released from prison by March
Page 10 - was able to take a group of offenders who were relatively more likely to commit future offenses and maintain their level of arrests for new crimes at or below that of a group (standard probationers) who were less likely to commit new crimes.
Page 58 - Most offenders charged with a felony are under the jurisdiction of the county superior courts. Offenders charged with lesser offenses—misdemeanors, traffic offenses—are usually under the jurisdiction of lower courts—specifically, the justice of the peace courts and the municipal courts.
Page 2 - a group of programs that are referred to collectively as intermediate sanctions. These programs get their name from the fact that the