Report of Findings: Comparison of Intensive Supervision Probation and Community Corrections Clientele

• NCJ Number: 188560
• Author(s): Kim English; Suzanne Pullen; Susan Colling-Chadwick
• Date Published: May 1996
• Length: 70 pages
• Grant Number(s): 95-DB-19-12-1
• Sponsoring Agency: US Dept of Justice
• Corporate Author: Colorado Division of Criminal Justice
• Sale Source: Colorado Division of Criminal Justice; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Downloaded May 10, 2001

Annotation

This study addresses questions about the types of offenders placed in intensive supervision probation (ISP) and community corrections in Colorado, about offender failures and successes in these two programs, and about the proportion of successful completions that would remain crime-free after 12 months.

Abstract

Results revealed that ISP participants were more likely than community corrections participants to have a current probation revocation, a violent juvenile arrest history, a current violent history, and some physical or verbal aggression. Community corrections participants were more likely than ISP participants to have a prior adult probation revocation, a juvenile adjudication history, a property or drug crime, an alcohol program, a mental health problem, or two or more prior felony convictions. A total of 54.7 percent of community corrections participants and 49.4 percent of ISP participants successfully completed the program. The majority of those who succeeded in the program remained crime free after 1 year. Program failure was significantly related to unemployment in community corrections. The presence of serious alcohol problems in ISP was statistically related to both program failure and rearrest rates after successful program completion. Tables and appended methodological information and tables