Alternative Probation Strategies in Baltimore, Maryland (ICPSR 8355)

Published: Jan 12, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
James J. Collins

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08355.v1

Version V1

Summary

The purpose of this study was to assess the relative cost-effectiveness of supervised probation, unsupervised probation, and community service. Data were collected from several sources: input-intake forms used by the State of Maryland, probation officers' case record files, Maryland state police rap sheets, FBI sources, and interviews with Maryland probationers. Non-violent, less serious offenders who normally received probation sentences of 12 months or less were offered randomly selected assignments to one of three treatment methods over a five-month period. Baseline data for probationers in each of the three samples were drawn from an intake form that was routinely completed for cases. An interim assessment of recidivism was made at the midpoint of the intervention for each probationer using information drawn from police records. Probationers were interviewed six and twelve months after probation ended. Demographic information on the probationers includes sex, race, age, birthplace, marital status, employment status, and education.

Citation

Collins, James J. Alternative Probation Strategies in Baltimore, Maryland. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08355.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (81-IJ-CX-0005)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Time Period(s)

1981

Data Collection Notes

For Parts 5-8, the number of records per case varies, with each part having at least five records per case.

Produced by the Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC, 1981.

Data for two interviews with each of the 371 probationers are contained in Parts 5-8.

Universe

Non-violent criminal offenders who committed less serious crimes in Maryland.

Data Source

Maryland State Police records, FBI records, probation officers' records, and personal interviews

Data Type(s)

administrative records data

survey data

Original Release Date

1985-03-18

Version Date

2006-01-12

Version History

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 9 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

  • The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.