SCC-Planning: Designing an Integrated Mobile Application and Case Management Tool to Promote Behavioral Change in Criminal Populations Supervised in the Community

本课题的目的是对下一代缓刑假释监管技术进行规划设计。目标是为BEACON（行为经济学应用与矫正机会通知）制定蓝图，该系统旨在作为基于社区的罪犯监督系统，利用基于智能手机的行为传感和预测分析的进步，并将其与基于证据的矫正治疗和监督实践相结合，以减少罪犯重新融入社区的再犯。BEACON通过促进罪犯改变而不仅仅是控制来提高社区监督能力，并提供高效和有效的支持，以增加罪犯重新融入社会的机会。该计划涉及当地刑事司法社区的利益相关者直接参与，从多个角度探索新技术的技术可行性和功能可取性，包括惩教部门、缓刑官员、罪犯和服务提供者。适用于BEACON系统的技术创新包括低功耗智能手机传感系统，该系统可以捕获多维行为信号，以及预测学习算法，该算法可以生成提示，促使违法者采取适当的行为遵守。当与先进的矫正治疗实践和行为改变理论相结合时，一个综合的、跨学科的监督系统就会出现，它提供了相当大的康复价值，并促进了社区安全。该项目的结果将为如何向目标社区部署先进的移动技术提供见解和指导方针，这将作为在不久的将来设计、开发和部署BEACON系统的基础。

The purpose of this project is to plan the design of next generation probation and parole supervision technology. The goal is to develop a blueprint for BEACON (Behavioral Economics Application with Correctional Opportunities Notifications), which is intended to serve as a community-based offender supervision system that will leverage advances in smartphone-based behavior sensing and predictive analytics, and integrate them with evidence-based correctional treatment and supervision practices to reduce recidivism of criminal offenders being reintegrated into the community. BEACON advances community supervision capabilities by promoting offender change rather than control alone and provides efficient and effective support to enhance offender reintegration opportunities.The plan involves direct engagement of stakeholders from the local criminal justice community to explore both the technical feasibility and functional desirability of the new technology from multiple perspectives, including correctional departments, probation officers, offenders, and service providers. The technical innovations adapted for the BEACON system include low-power smartphone sensing system that captures multi-dimensional behavioral signals and predictive learning algorithms that generate prompts to nudge offenders into appropriate behavioral adherence. When integrated with insights from advances in correctional treatment practices and behavior change theories for probationers and parolees, a comprehensive, interdisciplinary supervision system emerges that offers considerable rehabilitative value and promotes community safety. The results of the project will provide insights and guidelines on how to deploy advanced mobile technologies to the target community, which serves as a foundation for the design, development, and deployment of the BEACON system in the near future.