HOPE Probation: Fair Sanctions, Evidence-Based Principles, and Therapeutic Alliances
HOPE Probation: Fair Sanctions, Evidence-Based Principles, and Therapeutic Alliances
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HOPE 缓刑:公平制裁、循证原则和治疗联盟
DOI:
10.1111/1745-9133.12261
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发表时间:
2016
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
Steven S. Alm
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作者:
Steven S. Alm
Honolulu, Hawaii. I conceived of the idea for Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement or HOPE strategy and, together with our probation officers and the other criminal justice system partners, implemented it in 2004. I thus read the recent evaluations of the Department of Justice's Demonstration Field Experiment (DFE)(Lattimore et al., 2016, this issue) and Delaware's Decide Your Time (DYT)(O'Connell, Brent, and Visher, 2016, this issue) with great interest. Although Texas had some good outcomes, the others were similar to probation-as-usual (PAU) and I wondered why. As we have had great success with Hawaii's HOPE strategy here in Honolulu for nearly 12 years now, and as other jurisdictions (eg, Texas SWIFT [Martin, 2013], Kentucky SMART [Administrative Office of the Courts & Department of Corrections, 2013], Michigan SSSPP [DeVall, Lanier, and Hartmann, 2011-2013], and Washington State Swift & Certain [Hamilton et al., 2015]) have had independent, evaluation-proven successes as well, I was curious as to the mixed results I was seeing reported in the DFE and DYT evaluations. In reading the two evaluations, I came to the realization that the evaluators in both the DFE and the DYT studies, as well as, apparently, several of the practitioners involved, unfortunately have a basic misunderstanding of the HOPE strategy. They seemingly believe that HOPE is simply a sanctions-only program that is solely concerned with imposing jail sanctions on probationers with no interest in their rehabilitation. Indeed, this is a common, but flawed and serious, misunderstanding of the HOPE strategy, and it ignores the critical roles played by the judge, probation/parole officers (POs), and treatment providers in HOPE. This misconception explains the metrics used/omitted in determining fidelity to the HOPE model and could have had significant impact on the results of the DFE and