Probation Officer Use of Effective Practices in Community Supervision (EPICS): A Statewide Examination

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Therapeutic approaches in community corrections have become common practice toward an evidenced based approach. Core correctional practices have been transformed into manualized training programs to support probation officer use of these evidence based practices. This study sought to determine how probation officer use of a manualized training program, specifically Effective Practices in Community Supervision (EPICS), impacted offender recidivism one-year post probation completion. Findings demonstrate that EPICS is most impactful with high risk offenders while individual EPICS skills such as behavior chains and cost benefit analysis had no impact on recidivism.