Pretrial
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| Program Profile: Milwaukee County (Wis.) Deferred Prosecution Program |
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Prosecution, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Courts, Diversion, Pretrial | This is a prosecutor-led pretrial diversion program to rehabilitate individuals convicted of misdemeanor or felony offenses who are at medium risk of reoffending. The program is rated Ineffective. There were statistically significant reductions in cases dismissed for treatment group individuals, compared with control group individuals. However, there were no statistically significant differences in the 2-year rearrest rate or days to first rearrest. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Milwaukee (Wis.) County Diversion Program |
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Prosecution, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Courts, Pretrial | This is a prosecutor-led pretrial diversion program to rehabilitate individuals with misdemeanor or felony offenses who are at low risk of reoffending. The program is rated Effective. There were statistically significant reductions in the rearrest rate, days to rearrest, and cases dismissed for treatment group individuals, compared with comparison group individuals, at the 2-year follow-up. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Cook County (Ill.) State Attorney's Deferred Prosecution Program (DPP) |
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Diversion, Sentencing, Courts, Pretrial | This is an alternative sentencing program aimed at diverting individuals who committed first-time nonviolent felony offenses from the criminal justice system. The program is rated Ineffective. Results showed no statistically significant differences between the treatment group and comparison group on rearrests rates. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Pretrial GPS Supervision of Intimate Partner Violence Defendants (Western Region, United States) |
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Violent crime, Crime prevention, Pretrial | This is a court-based, pretrial, GPS supervision intervention for defendants arrested for intimate partner violence offenses. The program is rated Ineffective. Program participants showed no statistically significant reductions in risk of rearrests, domestic rearrests, or failure to appear in court. However, the program did show statistically significant reductions in defendants’ risk of failure to appear at meetings with pretrial services. Date Posted: |
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| Program Profile: Staff Training Aimed at Reducing Rearrest (STARR) |
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Training, Probation, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Pretrial | This is a training program for federal community supervision officers providing direct service to persons convicted of a crime who are under supervision. The goal is to improve one-on-one officer-client interactions to reduce risk and recidivism. The program is rated Promising. Clients in the experimental group had statistically significant lower failure rates than control group clients at the 12-month follow up; however, there were no statistically significant differences in failure rates at Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: Court-Mandated Batterer Intervention Programs (BIPs) |
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Diversion, Pretrial, Recidivism, Crime prevention | This practice involves psychoeducational and cognitive–behavioral approaches to reduce the recidivism for individuals who have committed intimate-partner violence offenses. The practice is rated Ineffective for reducing either official or victim reports of repeated intimate-partner violence. Date Posted: |
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| Practice Profile: Pretrial Interventions for Ensuring Appearance in Court |
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Release on Recognizance, Pretrial | During the pretrial process, defendants may be released on certain conditions. To ensure that released defendants show up to their court date, jurisdictions have used three strategies: 1) court-date reminder notifications, 2) bonds, and 3) supervision in the community. The goal of is to reduce the failure-to-appear rates of defendants. Across the three strategies, the practice is rated Promising for decreasing failure-to-appear rates but rated Ineffective for reducing arrest rates. Date Posted: |