NCT01359137

An Assessment of SAFE (Swift Accountable Fair Enforcement) in Cochise County

An Assessment of Arizona's SAFE (Swift Accountable Fair Enforcement) Program in Cochise County

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 105 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pepperdine University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a Cochise County experiment with innovative probation supervision practices. Subjects are assigned to one of three supervision conditions.

Detailed description

Historically, rates of failure on routine probation have been high. The result is that large numbers of probationers are ultimately revoked from probation and sentenced to long underlying jail or prison terms. Arizona is experimenting with alternatives to routine probation with the goal of reducing the overall burden of incarceration. Cochise County in Arizona is experimenting with innovative probation supervision practices. Subjects are assigned to one of three supervision conditions: Probation-as-usual (routine supervision with no deferred jail); discretionary deferred jail in response to probation violations; and Arizona's Swift, Accountable, Fair, Enforcement, or SAFE (SAFE involves non-discretionary deferred jail in response to probation violations).

Conditions

• Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Probation as usual	Routine probation with do deferred jail condition.
BEHAVIORAL	Deferred Jail	Discretionary deferred jail in response to violations of probation conditions.
BEHAVIORAL	Arizona's SAFE	Swift Accountable Fair Enforcement (SAFE) uses non-discretionary brief jail sanctions for probation violations.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-06-01
• Completion: 2012-08-01
• First posted: 2011-05-24
• Last updated: 2018-04-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States