Recidivism Case Study

IDCPD culture seemed to change overnight, changed from more of a policing agency to and service agency in which they were design for in the being. Different parole district have start requesting for a Summit of Hope in the area. Many of the parole districts did not know that these services that were provided by outside vendors were in their area and would provide services to parolees. Also many other vendors start building relationships with their parole districts and were able to be in contact with parolees more often to provide different services for them including job referrals, GED courses, and union apprenticeships. IDCPD cannot tie the relation, but IDCPD Parole numbers have drop, by 3%, the recidivism has also drop by 2.89%, including …show more content…
Another aspect was to see what change need to be made to the event to make it successful and a clear impact on recidivism. The first thing was to see what the demographics of parolee population that was attending were the Summit of Hope. The average age is 34 year old, 84.7% are males and 15.3% are Female, the average marital status is single, the 82.7 had children. Education was another view, average grade completion was 7th grade, and 22.5% had completed their GED, while another 21.75% had a high school Diploma. Still 62% of the Parolee had interested in attending college. (IDOC Summit of Hope Survey review data, 2014) Also was the importance of evaluating the vendors and see if attending the Summit of Hope was a benefit for them to attend. Here are some of the comments that came from the vendor …show more content…
This is huge for referral information.”
• “Great Summit! Plant the seed and they will grow!”
(IDOC Summit of Hope Survey review data, 2014)
Most importance of all was evaluating the Parolees and Probationers and see if attending the Summit of Hope was a benefit for them to attend. Here are some of the comments that came from the Parolee and Probationers