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The Impact of the Pandemic on Testing the Effectiveness of Rehabilitative Community Supervision Home and Field Contacts
SESSION INFO
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Session Type: Workshop
Home and Field Contacts
Field work is a core community supervision practice that is at the frontline of reentry, and often involves activities focused on compliance (e.g., visual confirmations of location, drug testing) or on rehabilitative practices (e.g., motivational interviewing, Carey Guides). Without strong evidence for the most effective way to conduct field work, policymakers face great uncertainty when determining whether and how best to conduct field work. Abt Associates, together with APPA, is conducting a rigorous test of the effectiveness of using rehabilitative practices in field contacts (compared to office or other non-field contacts) using a randomized controlled trial design. Researchers will discuss the design of the current study, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on both the study design and topic, and lessons learned for the field.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Walter Campbell
Senior Analyst, ABT Associates Inc.
Dr. Campbell is an associate/scientist at Abt Associates with experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, including descriptive, quasi-experimental designs, and randomized controlled trials. Among them are quasi-experimental analyses of the impact of treatment referrals for those on community supervision in Oregon and the impact of field contacts in community supervision in Ohio and Minnesota. He has also led geographic analyses of imprisonment and is working on an analysis of the use of housing, medical, and nutritional benefits among those who are incarcerated.
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