Update on the HOPE Demonstration Field Experiment

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

The Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) program is based on a program that was implemented in Hawaii in the early 2000s to provide swift, certain, and modest sanctions in response to probation violations including positive responses to random drug tests. Evaluation of the Hawaii HOPE program suggested that the program resulted in dramatic reductions in drug use and future incarcerations. In 2011, the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the National Institute of Justice funded a four-site replication of the Hawaii HOPE program to determine whether this promising program would reduce substance use and recidivism among probationers. This session provides preliminary fidelity, process, and impact findings from the HOPE Demonstration Field Experiment.

Sub Unit

• Area IV. Criminal Justice Policy and Practice / 42. Community Corrections

Individual Presentations

• Implementation and Fidelity to HOPE in the Four-State DFE - Jonathan Kulick, Pepperdine University; Angela Hawken, Pepperdine University

• Process Evaluation of the HOPE DFE: Implementation Lessons and Fidelity So Far - Gary Zajac, Pennsylvania State University; Debbie Dawes, RTI International; Laura Winger, Pennsylvania State University; Susan Brumbaugh, RTI International

• Communication Patterns among Key Stakeholders in the HOPE Demonstration Field Experiment - Laura Winger, Pennsylvania State University; Gary Zajac, Pennsylvania State University

• Impact Findings from the HOPE Demonstration Field Experiment - Doris L. MacKenzie, Pennsylvania State University; Pamela K. Lattimore, RTI International

Chair

• Pamela K. Lattimore, RTI International

Discussant

• Eric Martin, National Institute of Justice