Doctoral Dissertation Research: Evaluating Models of Rehabilitation and Probation in the Criminal Justice System

美国的许多社区越来越多地求助于替代矫正计划，如缓刑和其他形式的康复，以应对高监禁率。这些不同的计划试图降低监狱成本和过度拥挤，同时更好地让罪犯融入社会。这个项目将考察一些改过自新计划的效用，因为缓刑官员会对高危罪犯做出决定。因此，该项目将评估刑事司法系统在决策、累犯和公共安全方面的新案件管理工具。该项目将审查刑事司法缓刑阶段使用的各种改过自新模式。它通过结合和整合康复、社会心理学和犯罪学学科的理论和模型来做到这一点。评估的结果将是一个综合的改过自新模式，为高危罪犯及其缓刑人员提供激励目标，以影响行为和减少累犯率。评估将首先通过对内布拉斯加州缓刑管理办公室的档案数据进行实地研究，然后通过雇用近300名缓刑官员的实验设计，以确定缓刑官员如何使用各种康复工具和计划。对累犯的预测将通过各种理论和模型的镜头进行检验。

Many communities in the United States increasingly have turned to alternative correction programs, such as probation and other forms of rehabilitation, to deal with high rates of incarceration. These various programs attempt to reduce prison costs and overcrowding, while better integrating offenders into society. This project will examine the utility of some rehabilitative programs as probation officers make decisions about high risk offenders. Consequently, the project will evaluate new case management tools in the criminal justice system with respect to decision making, recidivism, and public safety.The project will examine various models of rehabilitation used during the probation phase of criminal justice. It does so by incorporating and integrating theories and models from the disciplines of rehabilitation, social psychology, and criminology. The result of the evaluation will be an integrated model of rehabilitation reform that provides high risk offenders and their probation officers with motivating goals to influence behavior and reduce recidivism. Evaluation will take place first through a field study of archival data from the Nebraska Office of Probation Administration, and then via an experimental design employing nearly 300 probation officers, in order to ascertain how probation officers use various rehabilitative tools and programs. Predictions of recidivism will be examined through the lens of various theories and models.