This report summarizes the main results of an analysis of data collected by the Jersey Probation and After-Care Service since the introduction of the Level of Service Inventory (Revised) (LSI-R, Andrews and Bonta 1995) as a new method of risk and need assessment to...
Risk and need assessment in British probation: the contribution of LSI-R
From 1996 until about 2000 the Canadian Level of Service Inventory Revised (LSI-R) was in use in a number of probation services in England and Wales, and it is still in use in the Jersey Probation and After-Care Service. This article reviews what has been learned...
Evidence-based Probation in a Microstate
Probation services throughout the world have difficulty in assessing the risks and needs presented by offenders, in evaluating the effectiveness of supervision, and in enabling practitioners to assess the impact of their work with individual offenders. This paper...
Evaluating the role of the parish hall enquiry
This article is based on the first two years of a five year research project commissioned by the Jersey Probation Service and the Crime and Community Safety Strategy to document and evaluate the role of the Parish Hall Enquiry system.
Supervision Skills for Probation Practitioners
The use of evidence-based practice in the attempt to improve probation’s impact on reoffending became a mainstream policy following the ‘Underdown report’ produced by HM Inspectorate of Probation in 1998. Initial efforts were largely based on cognitive-behavioural...