A random (almost) study of staff training aimed at reducing re-arrest (STARR): Reducing recidivism through intentional design.

COMMUNITY SUPERVISION IS one of the most widely imposed court responses, with approximately 5,095,200 or 70 percent of the correctional population being under community supervision (Glaze, 2010). Despite its popularity, researchers have limited insight into whether community supervision is an effective strategy for reducing recidivism. The most recent reviews of the effectiveness of community supervision (Solomon, Kachnowski, & Bhati, 2005; Aos, Miller, & Drake, 2006; Bonta, Rugge, Scott, Bourgon, & Yessine, 2008; Green & Wink, 2010) brought sobering results. More than three decades after Martinson (1974) summarized the findings of his review of rehabilitation efforts by saying "with few and isolated exceptions, the rehabilitative efforts that have been reported so far have had no appreciable effect on recidivism," Bonta and his colleagues (2008) have found that more recent research yields no better results: the impact of community supervision is limited at best and non-existent in the most pessimistic interpretation.

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