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Expanding Measures of “Success” on Community Supervision
SESSION INFO
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Session Type: Workshop
Approximately three million people in the United States are currently under probation supervision, which far exceeds the number of individuals in prisons, jails, or on parole. Given the volume of those on community supervision, the field has both a responsibility and an interest in evaluating outcomes for this population. Traditional measures of success have been primarily defined as the absence of failure, which reflects the deficit-focused frameworks dominant within the field. However, there is growing interest within academic and practitioner communities to understand the impacts and outcomes of probation supervision from a more holistic standpoint. This presentation reports findings from one effort to do so, featuring a randomized-control trial in which individuals in the treatment group completed a short set of wellness-related questions at each probation meeting. Challenges and technical limitations related to expanding measures of success for this population will also be discussed.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Kayla Freemon
Assistant Professor, DePaul University
Kayla Freemon is the Associate Chair and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at DePaul University. Her research focuses on justice system accountability and applied program evaluation with an emphasis on using data-driven methodologies to inform public policy. Dr. Freemon received her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Arizona State University.
Carly McCabe
Director of Research, Cook County Adult Probation Department
Carly McCabe is the Director of Research and Evaluation for the Cook County Adult Probation Department. She is responsible for coordinating and executing evaluation studies focused on various court-mandated conditions of pretrial and probation supervision, as well as research studies involving the pretrial and probation populations. She is particularly interested in using mixed-methods research to consider the impacts of community supervision on those supervised and in utilizing research to make needed resources and opportunities more accessible to those on supervision. Carly received her MA in Criminal Justice & Criminology from Loyola University Chicago.
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