Experiencing Probation: Results from the Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement Evaluation

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

The evaluation of the Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) Demonstration Field Experiment collected extensive information on the experiences of the 1,504 individuals who were randomly assigned to HOPE or to probation as usual (PAU). This information came from interviews with probationers and those administering the HOPE programs in four sites, as well as from extensive data collection that documented the events (violations, sanctions, arrests) and temporal lived experience (community, residential drug treatment, jail, and prison) of those on HOPE and PAU. These presentations focus on the experiences of those on probation and the lessons learned by those administering HOPE.

Sub Unit

• Area VII. Criminal Justice Policy and Practice / 34. Corrections

Division of Special Interest

• Divisions of Special Interest / Division on Corrections & Sentencing

Individual Presentations

• First Person HOPE: Perspectives on the Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement Demonstration Field Experiment from HOPE Probationers and Team Members - Debbie Dawes, RTI International; Gary Zajac, Pennsylvania State University; Elaine Arsenault, Pennsylvania State University

• The HOPE Implementation Experience in Four Sites: Lessons from the Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement Demonstration Field Experiment - Gary Zajac, Pennsylvania State University; Debbie Dawes, RTI International; Elaine Arsenault, Pennsylvania State University

• Experiencing Probation: More Lessons from the HOPE DFE - Pamela K Lattimore, RTI International; Matthew DeMichele, RTI International; Stephen Tueller, RTI International

Chair

• Doris MacKenzie, Pennsylvania State University