Probation Effectiveness as Key to Successful Justice Reinvestment: Why is it So Hard?

This presentation discusses increasing demands on community corrections, what can make community corrections better, and why it's so hard to implement this knowledge in practice.

February 10, 2010 | The Council of State Governments Justice Center
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