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Analítico de Periódico
HEDDERMAN, Carol
How not to assess probation performance : constructing local reconviction rates
Probation Journal, London, V.56,n.2(June 2009), p.111-127
DIREITO PENITENCIÁRIO, EXCUÇÃO DA PENA, MEDIDAS DE EXECUÇÃO NA COMUNIDADE, PROBATION, REINCIDÊNCIA, DADOS ESTATÍSTICOS, REINO UNIDO
Much of the responsibility for securing reductions in offending and reoffending is being devolved to local statutory services. It follows that robust and timely local measures for assessing reoffending must be created. To this end, for the last three years the National Offender Management Service has produced quarterly reconviction reports for individual probation areas based on 'snapshots' (cross-sectional samples) of the supervision caseload. An independent examination of the data for the East Midlands Region reveals that the way cases have been selected and followed-up departs from the conventions employed in all previous ('longitudinal') reconviction studies in England and Wales.