Abstract
The present study aims to examine the roles classification of special needs offenders (SNOs) played in their group’s marginal propensity to successfully or unsuccessfully complete parole supervision due to the individual and collective performances in-between and in-within the classified group known as special needs offenders program (SNOP) caseload. In this study, compliance or noncompliance of SNOs policies or special conditions’ violations was seen as the determinate supervision that affects SNOs psychometric performances. SNOs were made up of mental impairment (MI), mental retardation (MR), terminally ill (TI), physical handicapped (PH), or medically recommended intensive supervision (MRIS) offenders. The Administrative Parole Hearings in three major counties in Region 3 Texas between 2008 and 2009 were analyzed. The study found that in all areas dealing with violations and hearing process, MI responded excessively in-between and in-within 92% to 100% in all measurement categories. Additionally, the study found that of the 1877 special needs offenders program (SNOP) hearings conducted in Region 3 between 2008 and 2009, MI accounted for 90% or 699 out of 774 of offenders not revoked. Within the same period, MI offenders accounted for approximately 93% or 269 out of 291 of paroles that were revoked. Also, MI offenders accounted for 93% or 641 out of 689 transfers to ISF facilities, 100% transfer to SAFPF, and for a 100% of all reopened revocation SNOs hearings in Region 3. Practically, MI showed overwhelming psychometric performances effects on the SNOP caseload. The implication of this study was to assist criminal justice officials, public health officials, public policy decision makers, and even for profit organizations to rethink, refocus, and revisit their SNOs management modalities, policies, and their methodologies, which could eventually bring some positive social changes to the SNOs statewide and possibly beyond.
Highlights
The purpose of this study was to examine the roles classification of special needs offenders (SNOs) during parole supervision in the state of Texas played in the SNOs’ compliance or noncompliance
We found that in-between and in-within the SNOs caseload, when psychometric test scale was used to measure the collected data, even within the SNOs caseload, mental impairment (MI) offenders overly performed to the measurement scale as MI offenders accounted for 92% or 1723 out of 1877 of all special needs offenders program (SNOP) hearings conducted in Region 3 in 2008 and 2009
As for the central research question “What are the relationships between classification of SNOs and the implementation of specialized intensive-1 (SI-1) in the psychometric effects of offenders’ performances?” We found that the ideologies behind the development and implementation of SI-1 supervision level imposed on the SNOs in supervised in the SNOP caseload in Austin, Colorado, and Fort Bend Counties, Texas created a higher recidivism rates for SNOs offenders; in MI in-within and in-between the SNOP classified caseload
Summary
The purpose of this study was to examine the roles classification of special needs offenders (SNOs) during parole supervision in the state of Texas played in the SNOs’ compliance or noncompliance. SI-1 supervision level is higher than those levels applied in the supervision of violent offenders such as sex offenders without sexual conviction, drug dealers, arsonists, armed robbers, substances and alcohol abusers, domestic violence offenders, driving while intoxicated (DWI) offenders, and murderers who may be supervised in sex offenders caseload or electronic monitoring caseload [1]-[3] These are populations supervised by TDCJ-PD (2011) [1] on regular caseloads that required fewer monthly contacts than those imposed and classified on the SNOs caseload. The focus of this study was to look into the roles classification of SNOs played in their groups’ marginal propensity to successfully or unsuccessfully complete parole supervision due to the individual and collective psychometric performances’ effects in-between and in-within the classified group known as SNOs in the SNOP caseload
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