Full text met HU account. In this article we report a study into the Dutch probation service about the question whether structured decision making about case management plans does or does not improve the quality of these plans, and subsequently improves the effectiveness of offender supervision. Two …

The probation specialized in addiction problems controls and supports individuals with substance addiction who are sentenced or accused of crimes. The financial position of these individuals is often weak. Many have debts and a low income. Several studies show a positive correlation between a bad financial …

In this thesis several studies are presented that have targeted decision making about case management plans in probation. In a case management plan probation officers describe the goals and interventions that should help offenders stop reoffending, and the specific measures necessary to reduce acute …

In 2010, the Dutch Probation Service introduced a digital decision support system for case management plans, a so called fourth generation risk/needs assessment instrument. Does this system help probation officers in determining the appropriate interventions that should prevent recidivism for each individual …

This article reports on the application of a visual method in a small-scale comparative study. Practitioners in five European countries participated and took photographs of the places and spaces where offender supervision occurs. Source: Queen's University Belfast Research Portal.

website of CEP (Confederation of European Probation) with with “state of the art knowledge” on probation. The information is both scientifically rigorous and practically relevant to a broad public of practitioners and interested lay persons. The context of probation is complex and multi-facetted. …

Link naar full text voor Hogeschool Utrecht In order to support desistance from crime and rehabilitation into society, the probation service has to adapt its service to the individual problems and strengths of offenders. As a result, offenders who have committed similar crimes but differ in the problems …

Conference paper of the Third North American Correctional and CriminalJustice Psychology Conference (NACCJPC Since some time now, working alliance has been recognized in psychotherapy as a main factor conducive to positive outcomes (Norcross, 2012). In mandated supervisory context, relevance and manifestation …

Tekst in Duits, Engels of Frans, samenvatting in het Duits en Frans. Am 5. und 6. November 2013 nahmen rund 180 Personen an der 8. Fachtagung teil, die gemeinsam durch die Schweizerische Vereinigung Bewährungshilfe und Soziale Arbeit in der Justiz (prosaj) und dem SAZ organisiert wurde. Die Tagung trug …

Reliability in decision making about intervention plans is a necessary condition for evidence-based probation work and equal treatment of offenders. Structuring decision making can improve agreement between clinical decision makers. In a former study however, we found that in Dutch probation practice …