NCJ Number
129570
Date Published
1991
Length
70 pages
Annotation
This report on the evaluation of Virginia's Intensive Supervision Program (ISP) for fiscal years 1989 and 1990 focuses on the similarity of ISP terminations and incarcerated offenders, committing offenses and test scores, comparison of successful and unsuccessful ISP terminations, and a 4-year comparison of ISP cases.
Abstract
As in the previous two evaluations, a comparison of clients who were terminated from ISP to three other offender groups has been included. Using the presentence investigation database, offenders sentenced to the Virginia Department of Corrections during each of the evaluation years are compared to ISP terminations in the following manner: ISP terminations and new commitments, ISP probationers and probation violators, and ISP parolees and parole violators. Data are also provided on the committing offense for which ISP terminations were under supervision and the risk-and-needs assessment scores for all ISP terminations and then separately for ISP probationers and ISP parolees. In this evaluation, ISP clients are considered terminated from ISP for one of eight reasons. Reasons for termination are grouped into three categories: successful, unsuccessful, and "other." Recommendations pertain to the improvement of evaluations by redrawing comparison groups, the examination of reasons for terminations/success, and the conduct of an outcome study to measure bed savings. Appended case summary report