The Swift, Certain, and Fair Sanctions Program (SCF): Replicating the Concepts Behind Project HOPE Program provides funding to states, units of local government, territories, and federally recognized Indian tribes (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior) in an effort to enhance public safety, foster collaboration, and to improve the outcomes of individuals under the supervision of community corrections.
The goals of this program, funded by the Consolidated and Further Appropriations Act, 2015, Pub. L. No. 113-235, 128 Stat. 2130, 2194, are to develop and enhance SCF initiatives and implement the SCF model with fidelity, resulting in reduced recidivism and better outcomes for program participants. SCF approaches are intended to: (a) improve supervision strategies that reduce recidivism; (b) promote and increase collaboration among agencies and officials who work in community corrections and related fields to enhance swift and certain sanctions; (c) enhance the offenders perception that the supervision decisions are fair, consistently applied, and consequences are transparent; and (d) improve the outcomes of individuals participating in these initiatives.
The Iowa Department of Justice will use FY16 Second Chance Demonstration Field Experiment (DFE): Fostering Desistance through Effective Supervision supplemental funds to support the Changing Attitudes and Motivational in Parolees (CHAMPS) program. The program goal is to further the Departments commitment to generate new evidence about services and programs that help facilitate the successful reintegration of offenders as they return to their communities. Specifically, the DFE design would focus on techniques to improve offenders motivation to change and strategies to alter criminal thinking, using a desistance approach, in an effort to answer critical questions about the impact on offender outcomes. The SCA DFE sought to address an offenders motivation to change as well as criminal thinking, two areas in need of more scientific information.
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