Probation Supervision and Reentry: Legal Financial Obligations, Sanctions, and Programs
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SESSION INFO

Monday, August 29, 2022
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Session Type: Workshop
assessment, supervision, and treatment of these two groups. Probation supervision and reentry: Legal financial obligations, sanctions, and programs Our panel will address challenges facing probationer reintegration and evidence-based programs that are designed to facilitate reintegration. Two presenters will discuss specific challenges related to legal financial obligations (LFOs) and child support payments; two will discuss new research on Evidence Based Practice (EBPs). The LFOS presentation will address how the number and types of fees affects probationers’ ability to pay them especially victims’ compensation, given their financial and household status. The child support presentation will address the impacts of sanctions for failure to pay child support, specifically on labor force participation and earnings, and capacity to pay child support. One EPB presentation will address Georgia State University’s (GSU’s) evaluation of a pilot project to expand the capacity of Georgia’s Accountability Courts to serve high risk/need probationers. The second will address GSU’s research evaluating Bureau of Justice Assistance funded Second Chance Act grant programs to address the needs of probationers.

SESSION PRESENTERS
Sommer Delgado
Ph.D. Student & Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia State University


Sommer Delgado is a Ph.D. candidate whose research interests focus on collateral consequences of punishment and the intersection of criminal justice and social programs. She is completing a paper on the impacts of sanctioning non-custodial parents for failure to pay child support on their labor-force participation. She has worked on projects in Atlanta focusing on community needs to address reentry populations and felony disenfranchisement.

John Prevost, PhD
Researcher, Georgia State University


John P. Prevost: After a distinguished career with the Georgia Parole Board that included serving in different capacities ranging from parole officer to assistant director where he led special projects and directed efforts of the Board's research, evaluation, and technology unit, Dr. Prevost completed his Ph.D. at Georgia State and continues to research community supervision issues. On GSU's evaluation of a Bureau of Justice Assistance-funded Swift, Certain, and Fair pilot project, he leads the team's qualitative assessments of the pilot courts' operations and actors' decision-making.

William J Sabol
Professor, Georgia State University


William Sabol, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology at Georgia State University, teaches and conducts research on corrections, sentencing policy, and crime statistics. During the past 30 years, he has held positions in government, private sector research institutions, and universities, including serving as the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics. He currently serves as a member of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; and he serves as a member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Evaluating Success Among People Released from Prison. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and was a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University’s Institute of Criminology.

Marshall L White
Ph.D. Student & Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia State University


Marshal L. White is Ph.D. candidate whose research interests focus on misdemeanor probation, criminal legal debt, and procedural fairness and legitimacy. While completing on her master's degree she worked on projects in Birmingham and Montgomery (AL) addressing prison diversion programs and the prevalence of fees and fines. She co-authored two recent papers on how the scope and amounts of legal financial obligations affect probationers' capacity to pay fees.