Articles by Gary Hinzman:
Caseload
Size in Probation and Parole
The failure to come to grips with standards for staff to offender ratios has resulted in nothing short of operational chaos, in some quarters, in the delivery of probation and parole services intended to enhance public safety and justice for all.
Field
Service Case Plans: Bane or Gain
Four Jurisdictions’ Experiences Striving for a comprehensive, objective, integrated, mission driven, outcome-based case management tool for probation and parole.
Iowa's
Road to Community Justice, Solutions for a Safer Community
The State of Iowa has the nation’s first, and perhaps most unique, community based corrections system. In Iowa the community bases system has responsibility for all pretrial, pre-sentence, probation, parole, and pre and post institutional residential facilities.
Transforming
Probation Through Leadership:
the“Broken Windows” Model
Either probation will be at the political and intellectual core of future policy-oriented efforts to promote public safety and offender rehabilitation in America, or it will continue to be widely devalued, ineffective and woefully under-funded.
“Broken
Windows” Probation: The Next Step in Fighting Crime
If the criminal justice system is going to keep violent crime on the run, it will need to do even more, beginning with a much better job of supervising the three million probationers in our midst.
The “Broken
Windows” Model of Probation: A Call for Transforming Community Supervision
It was and remains the vision of the “Broken Windows” model to place probation “at the table” when public safety and justice issues are debated and resolved. It is a vision that seeks to bind probation practitioners as valued community partners in working across the entire spectrum of local crime prevention, reduction and control.
The
Matrix: A Community Corrections Response to Matching the Offender with Treatment
Resources
The Matrix developed is designed to meet risk, need, and responsivity. The Matrix uses several assessment tools such as the Level of Services Inventory (LSI-R), and the Iowa Classification System, synthesizes the information, and uses it to plot a position on a sixteen-grid matrix.
Embracing
Key Strategies for a Rational Probation System
In many respects, probation is the "dark figure" in the criminal justice world. Though responsible for approximately twothirds of offenders under correctional control, amazingly little in-depth re~earch has been conducted on its activities or impact except in the limited area of intensive supervision programs. We can say little with confidence about what probation does and to what effect.
Short
Sightedness can Cause Budgetcide
Budgetcide is cutting your own throat during difficult budgetary times. Probation administrators need to think through the implications of their reactions to tough fiscal times and develop strategies that maintain their value and belief structures and strategies that position them well for the future when fiscal times are better
Sixth
Judicial District Department of Correctional Services Reorganization
In order to more effectively manage projects like the Living Laboratory, the cognitive restructuring programs associated with "what works," and the "Broken Windows" strategies such as neighborhood-based supervision, the District needed to review its organizational capacity to deliver the outcomes these strategies demand.
Putting
the Community Back in Community Corrections
The process of "putting the community back into community corrections" is an ongoing and continuously evolving process that has no ending point. It remains pliable and flexible to meet the needs of a complex society. One of the greatest gains for the agency is sharing responsibility with the community.
Sixth
District High Risk Unit Lowers Risk to the Public
To respond to the need for supervision, the Sixth Judicial District Department of Correctionaf Services, headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, created a High Risk Unit (HRU) of parole and probation officers trained by the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy.
BrokenWindows,
Broken Buckets:
Solutions for Safer Communities
Since the Reinventing Probation Literature has appeared, many probation administrators find themselves in a paradox. They believe in the reinventing strategies but upon further reflection and consideration, they realize that the road to reinventing probation will be rocky.
Embracing
Effective Programming For
Offender Re-Entry
A good balance of treatment and accountability provides the best results - one without the other provides a weaker model and less effectiveness. A well-balanced department should be able to create a good balance of programs instilling treatment and accountability.
Probation
and Parole: The Value of Reinvesting in Community Expertise
The strategies and practices assodated with penal modernism now are found wanting by the citizenry, legislators, pubic policy elites, and academicians, the heart of their critique is a deeply held belieef that the system of justice no longer represents a credible response to the problem of crime.
The
Effective Use of Electronic Monitoring
The need for electronic monitoring has taken on new dimensions. As an enhancement, electronic monitoring may be considered for a variety of promising new intermediate sanctions programs.
The
Matrix: Matching the Offender with Treatment Resources
The Matrix provides a high-tech approach to assessing the risk and needs of offenders and matching them with available treatment resources and supervision strategies.
Working
Outside the Box: Thinking Differently About Justice
Thinking differently is just what those in Iowa's Sixth Judicial District Department of Correctional Services did when they created the Community Corrections Improvement Association (CCIA) as a private, non-profIt, bootstrap foundation.
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