Evaluation of a Mentoring Court for High-Risk Probationers

• In Event: Evaluating Crime Control Strategies

Abstract

The MENTOR (Mentors Empowering Now to Overcome Recidivism) program is a problem-solving court that provides mentoring and case management to medium- and high-risk probationers in Philadelphia. As part of a larger outcome evaluation, the current study matched MENTOR participants to similarly situated individuals under the regular terms of probation supervision. Independent samples t-tests were used to identify whether there were significant differences in new arrests and supervision violations. Implications for the future of the MENTOR program as well as other similar problem-solving courts will be provided.

Author

• Caitlin Taylor, La Salle University