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Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (Miti), Himal Adhikari Apr 2018

Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (Miti), Himal Adhikari

Criminal Justice Data

This report summarizes interview data collected using MITI, by the Stearns County Community Corrections. The 42 interviews of corrections clients were held between 2015 and 2017. They were examined to determine the effectiveness of interviewing techniques using criteria established on the MITI form. Overall effectiveness measures are given, as well as correlations among some of the quantitative measurements.


Reincarceration Rates For Dwi And Domestic Violence Offenders, Torrence Savage, Brittany Wittrock, Joseph Brough Apr 2018

Reincarceration Rates For Dwi And Domestic Violence Offenders, Torrence Savage, Brittany Wittrock, Joseph Brough

Criminal Justice Data

Stearns County Community Corrections is looking for the likelihood for offenders to be re-incarcerated within ninety days to three years after the last contact between the agent and the client. All of the clients were separated by year and categorized by whether their initial crime was Domestic Violence or DWI. Many of these clients had multiple observations for cases that were reduced to include only the case with the agent that they worked with the longest.

It was found that the re-incarceration rate for both Domestic and DWI had a decrease of approximately 75% over the course of four years. …


Working Relationship Between Clients And Agents At Stearns County Community Corrections, Catherine Fontana Apr 2018

Working Relationship Between Clients And Agents At Stearns County Community Corrections, Catherine Fontana

Criminal Justice Data

Stearns County Community Corrections surveyed its Clients for a month on the Client-Agent working relationship. The responses were on a 7-point scale with 1 being the lowest and 7 the highest. For ease of analysis, the responses were divided into low (1-3), medium (4-5) and high (6-7). The results were analyzed by question, program, age, gender, race, supervision time, and individual Agent. All results are available in table and graph form in the appendix. Lastly, Stearns County Community Corrections was compared to Ramsey County Community Corrections. Given the data available, a different categorization was used with low (1-3), medium (4), …