Site characteristics | Site one | Site two | Site Three | Site four | Site Five |
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Implementation setting | Problem solving court | Problem solving court | Problem solving courts (2) | General probation | Halfway house |
Site participants involved | Judge | Judge | Judge | POs | Judge |
AUSA | AUSA | AUSA | FPD | ||
FPD | FPD | FPD | POs | ||
POs | POs | POs | |||
Treatment providers | |||||
n = 8 | n = 5 | n = 14 | n = 5 | n = 7 | |
Used some type of incentives before JSTEPS | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Inter-organizational dynamics | Have worked together for 4 years, know each other well, but maintain adversarial legal process, team makes decisions via consensus; team defers to judge even on minor decisions | Have worked together for 2 years, maintain traditional adversarial rules when talking through most issues, try to come to group consensus | Just establishing one court with a second less than one year old, very focused on team work and consensus decision-making | Probation has autonomy when implementing new programs; PO Chief works to maintain relationships with key leaders in other agencies in the system. | Probation has autonomy when implementing programs in halfway house, does not include other organizational actors in the process |
Initial acceptability of CM (within probation) | Dedicate a supervising and frontline PO to court. Both POs receptive to incentives. Has PO using workbooks to facilitate offender change. Will use CM in court process. | Dedicate 1 PO to the court. PO has social work background and is very receptive to the idea of using incentives. PO uses workbooks to facilitate offender change. Will use CM in court process. | Dedicate 2 POs to court; both have prior probation experience outside Federal system & hold sanctions-based (non-incentives) philosophy toward participants. Will use CM in court process. | No specialized court. Has behavioral modification program run by PO but using CM with general supervision. Chief & POs experienced w/EBP & receptive to CM as EBP. | Frontline PO working with halfway house will implement CM. Halfway House protocol is sanctions–focused; PO wants to keep that focus even with CM. |