Exam 12: Program Evaluation, Evidence-Based Practices, and Future Trends in Corrections

Outcome evaluations involve quantitative research aimed at assessing the impact of the program on long-term treatment outcomes.

The Bureau of Justice Assistance Center for Program Evaluation (2007) elaborates the need for evaluations to be constructed in a manner that is useful to the ______ of the evaluation.

What are commonly used process measures of reentry program performance?

______ evaluation involves quantitative research aimed at assessing the impact of the program on long-term treatment outcomes.

Agencies that successfully implement the assessment-evaluation cycle tend to use ______ resources more effectively and are also less prone to placing the community at risk of future criminal activity.

In a process evaluation, which program impact on the host prison facility area that should be examined involves reviewing the number of rule infractions, the cost of hearings, court litigation expenses, and inmate cooperation in general prison operations?

The assessment of the ______ typically serves as the baseline measure when examining evaluation processes.

Follow-up data (e.g., drug relapse, recidivism, employment status) are at the heart of which kind of evaluation?

______ traditionally refers to assessment of the effects of the program on clients while they are in the program, making it possible to assess the institution's intermediary goals.

______ correctional systems have had more legal problems related to the constitutionality of their operations than private systems.

______ programs that screen clients at intake, complete placement assessments, and provide counseling to clients are fulfilling an activity.

Objectives are specific results or effects of a program's activities that must be achieved in pursuing the program's ultimate goals.

What are specific results or effects of a program's activities that must be achieved in pursuing the program's ultimate goals called?

In a process evaluation, which program impact on the host prison facility area that should be examined involves examining the physical properties of the program?

What kind of community corrections agency is one that can adjust to outside community needs and challenges as well as internal personnel and resource challenges?

Correctional objectives involve that an agency's evaluative process allows for an outside person (whether an auditor, an evaluator, or the public at large) to have full view of the agency's operations, budgeting, policies, procedures, and outcomes.

What refers to the effects that the media have upon the public perception of prison or community supervision programs?

Stakeholders in corrections evaluations include the agency personnel, the community in which the agency is located, and even the offender population that is being supervised.

The use of globalized operations in corrections carries some degree of controversy. This is largely because some people have a moralistic opposition to the idea that money might be made off the misery of others.

Which is not a commonly used process measure for reentry program performance?