Community-Based Corrections Substance Abuse Treatment for the Higher Risk Offender, Iowa Department of Corrections Performance Audit Report, September 2007

The performance audit conducted by the Department of Management concerned the licensed substance abuse treatment programs in Department of Corrections’ institutions. This report uses the same methodology, modified for community-based corrections populations, to examine the delivery of substance abuse treatment for higher risk offenders under field supervision, and all offenders who were assigned to community corrections residential facilities.

Drug Court Evaluation Documents Program's Success, Data Download, Iowa Department of Corrections, August 2009

The Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning (CJJP) recently released its study of Iowa’s six adult drug courts, all of which are administered by community corrections agencies. Making heavy use of DOC’s ICON data base, CJJP examined completion rates, recidivism and substance abuse treatment. CJJP also compared drug court results with those of a group of offenders who were screened and declined or were rejected by drug court in 2003 (referred) and a sample of offenders starting probation in 2003 (probationers). CJJP tracked the offenders for approximately three years.

ICON: It's Not Just for Corrections Anymore, Data Download, Iowa Department of Corrections, January 2010

The Iowa Correctional Offender Network (ICON) is a data collection system that was first deployed in community corrections in 2000 after two years of planning, and was integrated with the institutions in 2004. The purpose of ICON is to collect and organize the data necessary to make informed decisions.

Community justice : striving for safe, secure, and just communities /

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Is corrections correcting? An examination of prisoner rehabilitation policy and practice in Queensland

This article provides an analysis of the policy and practice of prisoner rehabilitation in Queensland, and the extent to which they accord with international best practice. Actual practice was identified through interviews and written submissions from 20 ex-prisoners and 18 prisoner service providers (including two past staff members from Queensland prisons), as well as through an examination of reported judicial review decisions and Department of Corrective Services statistics. The results demonstrate that although the legislation and procedures suggest that a best practice system of prisoner rehabilitation exists in Queensland, there is a significant gulf between policy and practice. Far from being sufficiently prepared for release, Queensland prisoners are generally released directly from high security facilities into a community which they have great difficulty reintegrating into. The results suggest that the corrective services system in Queensland is not succeeding in fulfilling its primary purpose, 'correction', or in meeting its well-publicised goal of ensuring community safety.

State of Iowa Systematic Study for the State Correctional System Phase II Report

During the second phase of this study, efforts have focused on integrating opportunities for best practices into a long-range plan designed to meet the Department of Corrections institutional and community corrections goals and objectives.

County-Funded Treatment Services for Mentally Ill Offenders Under Community-Based Corrections Supervision, Data Download, Iowa Department of Corrections, June 2008

In a previous Data Download, we reported that about 27% of offenders under CBC field supervision and 42.6% of offenders in residential facilities are in need of mental health treatment services. In addition,more than 35% of offenders needing mental health treatment are not receiving services.

Violator Program: Community Aftercare is Key, Data Download, Iowa Department of Corrections, November 2008

Through an act of the Iowa Legislature, the Violator Program came into existence some 20 years ago, the purpose of which was to provide an alternative to long-term imprisonment for those offenders whose probation/parole had been suspended. This 4-6 month program is currently administered at three locations: Luster Heights, Newton Correctional Release Center,and the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women.

Mentally Ill Offenders in Community-Based Corrections, Research in Brief, Iowa Department of Corrections, April 2008

A survey of offenders supervised by the eight district departments of correctional services. This report was commissioned by the Iowa Department of Corrections Focus Group on Mental Health in Community-Based Corrections.

Community-Based Corrections' Impact on Recidivism, Data Download, Iowa Department of Corrections, September 2013

It is no surprise that probationers are less likely to receive new felony or aggravated misdemeanor convictions than are parolees following discharge from supervision; probationers tend to be at lower risk to begin with. Likewise, parolees tend to be at lower risk and less likely to be convicted of serious offenses than are offenders who complete their sentences in prison.

Issue review : community-based corrections funding.

This issue review examines the funding levels within the community-based corrections, or CBC, district departments compared to the offender populations, risk and supervision levels, and recidivism rates to consider whether current funding allocations are appropriate. The majority of offenders in corrections are supervised by the CBC-district departments.

Theoretical Underpinnings of Community-based Sentences and Custody for Young Offenders in Hong Kong

Much has been written about youth crime, justice and corrections in Hong Kong in the past three decades, in particular, about the historical roots of the youth justice system, causes of juvenile delinquency, and the outcomes of different rehabilitative programmes for young offenders. However, little is known in theory, practice and policy about how community-based and custodial sentences can achieve the goals of rehabilitation and correction for young offenders. In this paper, the author analyses the purposes of penal measures with reference to the classical theories of punishment, rather than empirical data or statistics. The author argues that a community-based sentence, in many respects, performs as or more effectively than a custodial programme in achieving the various sentencing aims.

QED and relativistic corrections in superheavy elements

In this paper we review the different relativistic and QED contributions to energies, ionic radii, transition probabilities and Landé g-factors in super-heavy elements, with the help of the MultiConfiguration Dirac-Fock method (MCDF). The effects of taking into account the Breit interaction to all orders by including it in the self-consistent field process are demonstrated. State of the art radiative corrections are included in the calculation and discussed. We also study the non-relativistic limit of MCDF calculation and find that the non-relativistic offset can be unexpectedly large.