Evidence Adoption in Community-Facing Agencies: Preparing Community Supervision and Victim Services to Implement Evidence-Based Practices

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

Community safety, justice, and healing depend on community-facing agencies’ ability to deliver effective and efficient services when monitoring those who have harmed and in responding to those who were harmed. With over 4.4 million people on probation or parole across the country, and over 6.3 million violent crime survivors, these groups often overlap. Community-facing agencies must adopt and practice evidence-based practices to reduce harm and respond to harm. Yet despite the growing body of community supervision and victim services research into effective practices, there exists a gap between the knowledge generated and integration of new techniques and models in practitioner settings, with research findings often implemented only many years after being published. This panel describes a study currently underway to investigate how community supervision and victim services agencies can better adopt evidence-based strategies. Community supervision and victim services practitioners interested in participating in the study are encouraged to join!

Sub Unit

• Area VI. The Criminal Justice System / 49. Community Corrections

Individual Presentations

• How Agencies Adopt New Evidence-Based Practices: State of the Field and Our Current Study - Walter Campbell, Urban Institute

• What Works in Victim Services: Evidence-Based Strategies - Malore Dusenbery, The Urban Institute

• What Works in Community Supervision: Evidence-Based Strategies - Ammar Khalid, Urban Institute, Justice and Safety Division

Chair

• Jennifer Yahner, The Urban Institute

Organized by a Division or external group?

The Urban Institute