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Please read this brief informed consent statement:
RESEARCH PROCEDURES The purpose of this research project is to understand how different evidence-based practices are used within community supervision processes and practices as well as to guide future models of implementing evidence based practices in these environments. If you agree to participate, you will be asked to respond to questions in a semi-structured interview on your perceptions about what should be the organizational priorities related to implementing evidence-based practices. Researchers will observe you at a meeting hosted by the department and ask you to participate in focus groups.
RISKS The foreseeable risk or discomforts associated with your participation in this study are limited. In answering questions, you may provide information or opinions about your workplace environment that are critical of your agency or may be viewed unfavorably by administrators, your supervisors, or fellow employees, with the small risk that this information or opinions may be seen by others. Research staff will implement procedures to reduce these risks.
BENEFITS There are no direct benefits to you as a participant other than to further research on evidence-based practices in community supervision. Interview responses will help researchers understand what are the greatest needs in community supervision practice so that those needs can be addressed through the use of evidence-based practices.
CONFIDENTIALITY The data in this study will be confidential. No narrative accounts of observations and interviews will include information that can be used to identify you (such as names, locales, or identification number). We will assign you a unique identification code and maintain that list separately from all written accounts of what we have observed. Only the researchers will have access to the identification key. Once observations are completed, the list will be destroyed. We will use only pseudonyms in the field note accounts of observations and interviews.
PARTICIPATION Your participation is voluntary, and you may withdraw from the study at any time and for any reason. If you decide not to participate or if you withdraw from the study, there is no penalty or loss of benefits to which you are otherwise entitled. There are no costs to you or any other party.
CONTACT This research is being conducted by Dr. Faye Taxman, Department of Criminology, Law, & Society, at George Mason University. She may be reached at 703-993-8555 or [email protected] for questions or to report a research-related problem. You may contact the George Mason University Office of Research Subject Protections at 703-993-4121 or [email protected] if you have questions or comments regarding your rights as a participant in the research.
This research has been reviewed according to George Mason University procedures governing your participation in this research. The George Mason University Human Subjects Review Board has waived the requirement for a signature on this consent form. |
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1. Please indicate the extent to which you feel comfortable doing the following.
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2. Please indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with the following statements.
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3. Please indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with the following statements about your organization.
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4. Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements about the condition in and functioning of your community corrections office.
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5. Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements about the conditions and functioning of your community corrections office.
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6. Please indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with the following statements about efforts to make changes in your community corrections office.
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7. To what extent do you employ each of the following procedures in referring and monitoring clients on your caseload to non-residential treatment or services?
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8. To what extent do you use the following case management practices with clients on your caseload?
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9. Risk can be defined as the likelihood that an offender will engage in further criminal behavior. |
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10. Risk can be defined as the likelihood that an offender will engage in further criminal behavior. |
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11. Actuarial Risk assessment… |
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12. Offenders who have a higher chance of re-offending, pose serious risk to public safety, and require the most restrictive supervision strategy are: |
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13. Criminogenic Needs... |
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14. Criminogenic Needs that are not addressed through treatment or other programming tend to increase the chance that an offender will reoffend. |
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15. Which of the following is NOT an interest that can motivate an offender to change? |
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16. Which of the following is NOT a Destabilizer? |
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17. Trust between the offender and the criminal justice staff is an important factor in developing motivation. |
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18. Motivational Interviewing uses confrontation to help offenders recognize and understand the consequences of their crime cycle. |
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19. Compliance with conditions of supervision is the same as Cooperation. |
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20. The offender's risk and need assessment and contact information are the only components that should be included in a Case Plan. |
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21. Triggers are the _______ that tend to lead an offender to reoffend. |
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22. Gender-Responsive Case Planning creates an environment that is responsive to individuals’ needs and strengths. |
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23. What is NOT true about Case Plans? |
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24. The main purpose of the Problem Solving process is to provide offender with techniques so that they can Problem Solve for themselves. |
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25. Which of the following is NOT a Step of Problem Solving? |
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26. Crime Desistance is an immediate event. |
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27. Crime Desistance focuses on those factors that result in an individual exiting crime. |
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28. Desistance involves both reducing Need factors and building Strengths and Stabilizers. |
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29. An offender (Sam) seems to have no motivation to stay crime-free. What should be done? |
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| 30. Please identify your job title: | | |
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* 31. Identify the District in which you are currently working: |
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32. Do you work in a special unit? |
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| 33. How long have you worked for the department? | | |
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34. What is the highest academic degree you hold?
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35. Do you hold any professional credentials, certifications, or licenses? |
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| 36. What is a typical caseload size? | | |
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| 37. Why did you decide to participate in this training? | | |
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| 38. What do you hope to learn from this training? | | |
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39. What are your primary job responsibilities (select all that apply)? |
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40. How frequently do you typically speak to an offender about the following:
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| 41. Please give a description of an average day working in your position. | | |
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42. How would you describe yourself (select all that apply)? |
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| 45. In the past year, indicate the types of training programs you have participated in. | | |
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