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     <title>RAND Research Topic: Probation</title>
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   <title type="html">Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2009-2010 Report</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR988.html</id>
   <published>Jan 24, 2012</published>
   <updated>Jan 24, 2012</updated>
   <summary type="html">The Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act funds programs that have been proven effective in curbing crime among juvenile probationers and young at-risk offenders. This report summarizes, for fiscal year 2009&amp;ndash;2010, Corrections Standards Authority&#8211;mandated outcome measures from each of the programs, as well as county-determined supplemental outcomes.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2008-2009 Report</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR832.html</id>
   <published>Oct 5, 2010</published>
   <updated>Oct 5, 2010</updated>
   <summary type="html">The Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act funds programs that have been proven effective in curbing crime among juvenile probationers and young at-risk offenders. This report summarizes, for fiscal year 2008&#8211;2009, Corrections Standards Authority-mandated outcome measures from each of the programs, as well as county-determined supplemental outcomes.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Report</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR746.html</id>
   <published>Jan 12, 2010</published>
   <updated>Jan 12, 2010</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;The Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act funds programs that have been proven effective in curbing crime among juvenile probationers and young at-risk offenders. This report summarizes outcome measures from each of the programs for fiscal year 2007-2008.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Future of DIRECT Surveillance: Drug and Alcohol Use Information from REmote and Continuous Testing</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080011.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2007</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2007</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;The focus of this essay is on alcohol use among probationers and parolees, but is also explores use of electronic monitoring technologies in other settings, and for other drugs.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">An Experimental Juvenile Probation Program: Effects on Parent and Peer Relationships</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080419.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2007</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2007</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Discusses a team approach to service delivery of an intensive probation program by the South Oxnard Challenge Project (SOCP). Researchers interviewed juveniles who were randomly assigned to either the SOCP experimental condition or the control condition of a routine probation program. The intensive probation program, among other goals, focused on improving parent-child relationships and teaching youth how to choose better peers. At 1 year post random assignment, experimental and control youth were not significantly different on key family or peer relationship measures&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2005-2006 Report</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR498.html</id>
   <published>Jul 28, 2007</published>
   <updated>Jul 28, 2007</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Legislation for the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act identifies six specific outcomes to measure success of intervention programs for participating youths: (1) successful completion of probation, (2) arrests, (3) probation violations, (4) incarcerations, (5) successful completion of restitution, and (6) successful completion of community service. This annual report summarizes those outcomes for FY05-06.&lt;/p&gt;
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   <title type="html">Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2004-2005 Report</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR368-1.html</id>
   <published>Mar 31, 2007</published>
   <updated>Mar 31, 2007</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Legislation for the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act identifies six specific outcomes to measure success of intervention programs for participating youths: (1) successful completion of probation, (2) arrests, (3) probation violations, (4) incarcerations, (5) successful completion of restitution, and (6) successful completion of community service. This annual report summarizes those outcomes for FY04&amp;ndash;05.&lt;/p&gt;
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   <title type="html">Juvenile Probation Initiatives in California and Their Effects</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9130.html</id>
   <published>Nov 25, 2005</published>
   <updated>Nov 25, 2005</updated>
   <summary type="html">Over the past ten years, probation departments across the state of California have undertaken five major initiatives aimed at juvenile offenders and at-risk youths.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Validation of the Risk and Resiliency Assessment Tool for Juveniles in the Los Angeles County Probation System</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR291.html</id>
   <published>Aug 26, 2005</published>
   <updated>Aug 26, 2005</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Describes RAND&amp;rsquo;s validation of the San Diego Risk and Resiliency Checkup (SDRRC), an assessment tool meant to objectively measure the risk and needs of the risk and needs of juvenile probationers in Los Angeles County. A youth&amp;rsquo;s SDRRC &amp;ldquo;resiliency score&amp;rdquo; was found to be significantly related to 12-month recidivism rate. The Los Angeles Probation Department has implemented a policy to institutionalize the SDRRC, now referred to as the LARRC.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Effects of Juvenile Probation Initiatives in California</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR297.html</id>
   <published>Aug 18, 2005</published>
   <updated>Aug 18, 2005</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Over the past ten years, California has undertaken five major initiatives aimed at juvenile offenders and at-risk youths.  While juvenile arrests and teen pregnancies have dropped, these outcomes cannot be definitively attributed to the initiatives.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Evaluating Intensive Supervision Probation/Parole (ISP) for Drug Offenders</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP168.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2003</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2003</updated>
   <summary type="html">Evaluating Intensive Supervision Probation/Parole (ISP) for Drug Offenders</summary>
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   <title type="html">Effectiveness of Community-Based Treatment for Substance-Abusing Adolescents: 12-Month Outcomes of Youths Entering Phoenix Academy or Alternative Probation Dispositions</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040920.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2003</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2003</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Whereas strong efficacy research has been conducted on novel treatment approaches for adolescent substance abusers, little is known about the effectiveness of the substance abuse treatment approaches most commonly available to youths, their families, and referring agencies. This report compares the 12-month outcomes of adolescent probationers who received either Phoenix Academy, a therapeutic community for adolescents that uses a treatment model that is widely implemented across the U.S., or an alternative probation disposition.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">An Evaluation of Substance Abuse Treatment Services for Juvenile Probationers at Phoenix Academy of Los Angeles</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030015.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2002</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2002</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Established in 1987, the program model, called Phoenix Academy, is a modified therapeutic community for adolescents that integrates an on-site public school into the treatment milieu. The model employs the view that substance abuse is the outward manifestation of a broad set of personal and developmental problems.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Ventura County and the Theory of Community Justice</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20020003.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2001</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2001</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;This chapter outlines the community justice model and applies it to one probation program.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">The FARE Probation Experiment:   Implementation and Outcomes of Day Fines for Felony Offenders in Maricopa County</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP883.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1999</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1999</updated>
   <summary type="html">The FARE Probation Experiment:   Implementation and Outcomes of Day Fines for Felony Offenders in Maricopa County</summary>
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   <title type="html">An Experimental Evaluation of Drug Testing and Treatment Intervention for Probationers in Maricopa County, Arizona</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/drafts/DRU1387.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1995</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1995</updated>
   <summary type="html">This report presents the results of RAND&apos;s evaluation of a 1992 experimental drug testing and alternative invention program implemented in cooperation with the Maricopa County (Arizona) Adult Probation Department.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Drug court or probation? : an experimental evaluation of Maricopa County&apos;s drug court</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP472.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1995</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1995</updated>
   <summary type="html">Drug court or probation? : an experimental evaluation of Maricopa County&apos;s drug court</summary>
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   <title type="html">Intensive Probation and Parole</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP476.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1995</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1995</updated>
   <summary type="html">Intensive supervision programs (ISP) have proliferated in the past decade. They generally emphasize reduced caseloads, close surveillance, urinalysis, treatment, and employment. </summary>
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   <title type="html">Maricopa County&apos;s drug court : an innovative program for first-time drug offenders on probation</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP355.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1993</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1993</updated>
   <summary type="html">Maricopa County&apos;s drug court : an innovative program for first-time drug offenders on probation</summary>
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   <title type="html">Diverting Prisoners to Intensive Probation: Results of an Experiment in Oregon</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/notes/N3186.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1989</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1989</updated>
   <summary type="html">This Note presents the results of an evaluation of an ISP implemented by Marion County, Oregon, which documents a number of important lessons regarding implementing a prison-diversion ISP.</summary>
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