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How can Family and Friends Improve Probation and Parole Outcomes? Lessons from Triple-S: Social Supports in Supervision
SESSION INFO
Saturday, June 29, 2024
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Session Type: Workshop
Scholars have called for the incorporation of informal social control agents into the community supervision of offenders, although systematic efforts to do so have been slow to come. This project reports on an initial trial of such a practice. In Triple-S: Social Supports in Supervision, probation and parole staff engaged in opportunity-reduction tactics by, in part, recruiting and training members of their clients’ social networks (called PoPPs: parents / partners / peers of probationers and parolees) who served as offender handlers, target guardians, and place managers. Clients were further coached in ways of avoiding and resisting crime opportunities by developing cognitive skills targeted toward their criminogenic decision-making. A pilot test of the Triple-S model was implemented in a probation and parole office in a large metropolitan area in Australia. This presentation discusses some of the qualitative and quantitative outcomes of evaluations of this new model of supervision. Recommendations for community supervision strategies are discussed, with an emphasis on the role of offenders’ family and friends as potential crime controllers and probation and parole staff as super controllers.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
William D. Burrell
Consultant, Independent Corrections Management, Burrell Consulting, LLC
William D. Burrell is an independent corrections management consultant specializing in community corrections, evidence-based practices, performance measurement, public management and organizational change. He has consulted, developed, and delivered training for probation and parole agencies at the federal, state and county level across the country. From 2003 to 2007, Bill was a member of the faculty in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University in Philadelphia. Prior to joining the Temple faculty, he served for nineteen years as chief of adult probation services for the New Jersey state court system.
Dr. Lacey Schaefer
Senior Lecturer, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University
Dr Lacey Schaefer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University and a member of the Griffith Criminology Institute. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Wichita State University, her Master of Science degree in Sociology from Mississippi State University, and her PhD in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati. She further completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Queensland. Her research expertise is in criminological theory and correctional ideologies and interventions, with experience as a translational criminologist within researcher-practitioner partnerships. As an applied researcher, Dr Schaefer designs correctional interventions, providing training to community corrections agencies and performing justice evaluations. Dr Schaefer is also an accomplished educator, showcased in two Dean’s Commendations for Excellence in Teaching from the University of Queensland, awarded to professors having earned scores in the top 1% of student evaluations. Her penology course was ranked in the top 20 (of 1,300) courses offered through Open Universities Australia as judged by student evaluations of teaching. In 2019 Dr Schaefer received the Griffith Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Early Career category, and in 2021 became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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