Studies, Articles, and Publications


Commentary & Reports

Mental HealthIssues in California's Juvenile Justice System
UC-Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice - May 2010

Conditions of Confinement
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - May 2010


Reforming Juvenile Justice Systems: Beyond Treatment
Reclaiming Futures - 2010


Adressing the Unmet Educational Needs of Children and Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems
Center for Juvenile Justice Reform - May 2010


Graham v. Florida
Supreme Court Decision striking down life without parole sentences
for juveniles in non-homicides - May 14, 2010

The Impact of Hawaii's HOPE Program on Drug Use, Crime and Recidivism
Pew Center on the States - January 2010

Alternatives for Non-Violent Offenders
PEW Center of the States and Vera Institute of Justice - December 2009


Managing Drug-Involved Probationers with Swift and Certain Sanctions: Evaluating Hawaii's HOPE
The U.S. Department of Justice - December 2009


Maximum Impact: Targeting Supervision on Higher Risk People, Places and Times
The PEW Center on the States - July 2009


Putting Public Safety First:  13 Strategies for Successful Supervision and Reentry
The PEW Center on the States - December 2008

Revolving Doors:  Parole System in Crisis
A series of articles from the North County Times about California's broken parole system. 

When Offenders Break the Rules:  Smart Responses to Parole and Probation Violations
Part 1:  Public Safety Policy Brief
Part 2:  Key Questions for Policy Makers and Practitioners
The Pew Center on the States - 2007

HOPE in Hawaii:  Swift and Sure Changes in Probation
National Institute of Justice - 2008

Scared Straight - by Probation
By Mark Schoofs,
The Wall Street Journal - July 2008

Probation Strategies to Prevent Recidivism
Address by Robert Maccarone at the Preventing Recidivism Panel at the "Reducing Youth Violence in New York State" conference - 2008

Topics in Community Corrections:  Annual Issue 2007:  Promising Strategies in Transition from Prison
National Institute of Corrections

Topics in Community Corrections:  Annual Issue 2006:  Effectively Managing Violations and Revocations
National Institute of Corrections

Stop Revolving-Door Justice
By Jason Newman, Progressive Policy Institute - 2008

Parole Violations Revisited (PDF)
By Peggy B. Burke, National Institute of Corrections, Center for Effective Public Policy- 2004

Parole Violations Revisited (web-based document)
National Institute of Corrections and the Center for Effective Public Policy

Responding to Parole and Probation Violations:  A Handbook to Guide Local Policy Development
Edited by Madeline M. Carter, National Institute of Corrections- 2001

A Guide for Probation and Parole:  Motivating Offenders to Change
By Scott T. Walters, Michael D. Clark, Ray Gingerich, and Melissa L. Meltzer, National Institute of Corrections - 2007

The Victim's Role in Offender Reentry
Office for Victims of Crime and the American Probation and Parole Association

What Works?  Evidence-Based Practices in Parole and Probation
By Thomas H. Williams,
Journal of Community Corrections - 2007

Prescription_for_Safer_Communities_-_ND_Law.pdf
By Chuck Colson and Pat Nolan, Prison Fellowship Ministries - June 2004


Statistics & Research

Sexual Vicitimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2008–09
Bureau of Justice Statistics - August 2010

Sexual Vicitimization in Juvenile Facilities Reported by Youth, 2008–2009
Bureau of Justice Statistics - January 2010

Probation and Parole in the United States, 2006
By Lauren E. Glaze, Bureau of Justice Statistics - 2007

Promising Victim-Related Practices and Strategies in Probation and Parole
Office for Victims of Crime - 1999

Policy-Driven Responses to Probation and Parole Violations
By Peggy B. Burke, National Institute of Corrections- 1997

Trends in State Parole, 1990-2000
By Timothy A. Huges, Doris James Wilson, and Allen J. Beck, Bureau of Justice Statistics - 2001

Research Brief:  Evaluation of HOPE Probation
By Angela Hawken and Mark Kleiman - 2008

The Pennsylvania Department of Correction's Parole Violator Study (Phase 1)
By Kristofer Bret Bucklen, Research in Review - 2005

The Pennsylvania Department of Correction's Parole Violator Study (Phase 2)
By Kristofer Bret Bucklen, Research in Review - 2006

Beyond the Prison Gates:  The State of Parole in America
By Jeremy Travis and Sarah Lawrence, Urban Institute - 2002

Does Parole Work?
Amy L. Solomon, Vera Kachnowski, and Avinash Bhati, Urban Institute - 2005