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

Pepperdine University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Probation as usual; Behavioral: Arizona's SAFE; Behavioral: Deferred Jail

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01359137

SPP0311F09

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full 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).

Enrollment: 105 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Supervised on probation in Cochise County
• Residing in Cochise County

Exclusion criteria

• First-time marijuana possession cases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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105 participants in 3 patient groups

Probation as usual

Experimental group

Description:

Routine supervision with no deferred jail condition.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Probation as usual

Deferred jail

Experimental group

Description:

Discretionary deferred jail in response to violations of probation conditions.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Deferred Jail

Arizona's SAFE

Experimental group

Description:

Swift Accountable Fair Enforcement (SAFE) which uses non-discretionary brief jail sanctions for probation violations.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Arizona's SAFE