The Routledge Handbook on Global Community Corrections

The Routledge Handbook on Global Community Corrections assesses and analyses the status of community corrections systems around the world, highlighting inter-regional and intra-regional variations in their design, implementation, and impact on policy and practice. Covering both probation and parole, this handbook brings together leading international experts to examine the myriad of systems developed under the broad heading of community corrections to manage community corrections populations at the pre-adjudication, adjudication, and post-release stages. 

Chapters are designed to consider the following questions:

• How many offenders are placed in community corrections systems around the globe?

• What are the key design features of these community corrections systems?

• What do we know about the effectiveness of community corrections within and across global regions?

This is an essential reference text for all those engaged with community corrections, probation, and post-release policy in criminal justice.

Hosted by The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance

This kickoff webinar for department of corrections (DOCs) directors, research directors, and corrections analysts will provide an overview of the services and materials that will be offered by the Virtual Academy for Corrections Analysts (VACA) program. Supported by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), which is a component of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, VACA builds data literacy and analytic capabilities of DOCs nationwide to further data-informed planning and decision-making.

As part of the webinar, CSG Justice Center staff will release an analysis of the results of a fieldwide engagement questionnaire that tracked the current challenges and opportunities facing DOCs’ research and data analytic departments nationwide. Additionally, a research director from Texas will share how he’s built analytic and research capacity for the state’s DOC. He will also present staffing analyses he’s conducted for his leadership team as an example of the types of analyses the VACA program will help state research teams carry out. Lastly, webinar attendees will have the opportunity to meet their peers in breakout sessions designed to foster cross-state relationships and professional networking.

Speakers:

• Ruby Qazilbash, Deputy Director for Policy, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA),

• Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice

• Andrew Barbee, Director, Research and Development, Texas Department of Criminal

• Justice

• Matthew Herman, Data Science Project Manager, CSG Justice Center

• Joshua Mallett, Deputy Research Division Director, CSG Justice Center

• Christopher Callaghan, Data Science Program Director, Research, CSG Justice Center