IMPACT - INTENSIVE MATCHED PROBATION AND AFTER-CARE TREATMENT, V 1 - THE DESIGN OF THE PROBATION EXPERIMENT AND AN INTERIM EVALUATION

• NCJ Number: 28217
• Author(s): M S FOLKARD; A J FOWLES; B C MCWILLIAMS; W MCWILLIAMS; D D SMITH; D E SMITH; G R WALMSLEY
• Date Published: 1974
• Length: 59 pages
• Corporate Author: Great Britain Home Office
• Sale Source: Her Majesty's Stationery Office
• Publication Type: Program/Project Evaluation
• Language: English
• Country: United Kingdom

Annotation

OFFENDERS TYPED BY THE DEGREE OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS AFFECTING THEM WERE GIVEN VARYING INTENSITIES OF PROBATION SUPERVISION AND DIFFERENT TYPES OF AFTER-CARE TREATMENT.

Abstract

OFFENDERS' PERSONALITIES WERE RATED 'INADEQUATE', 'DISTRUBED', OR 'NORMAL' BASED ON ASSESSMENTS BY SUPERVISING PROBATION OFFICERS. THE SOCIAL SITUATIONS OF OFFENDERS WERE RATED 'DELINQUENT AND STRESSFUL', 'DELINQUENT', 'STRESSFUL', OR 'NORMAL'. THE MOST FREQUENT CASE WAS THE INADEQUATE OFFENDER WHO CAME FROM A DELINQUENT AND STRESSFUL SITUATION. TREATMENT TYPOLOGIES INCLUDED VARIATIONS IN THE LENGTH OF THE PROBATION ORDER AND THE NUMBER OF INTERVIEWS, INDIVIDUAL AND SITUATIONAL TREATMENT, VARIATIONS IN THE DEGREE OF SUPPORT OR AND CONTROL OVER THE OFFENDERS, AND CHANGES IN TREATMENT. RESULTS INDICATE THAT 'THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE EXPECTED AND ACTUAL FAILURE RATES FOLLOWING PARTICULAR TYPES OF TREATMENT.'