Galleguillos, S., Sánchez Cea, M., Koetzle, D., Mellow, J., Schwalbe, C. La Pandemia (2023). COVID-19 y Libertad Vigilada en Chile: Supervisión Remota y Diferencias Regionales. Política Criminal, 17 (34), 898-924. Link: https://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0718-33992022000200897&script=sci_arttext&tlng=pt
This paper explores the adoption of remote monitoring technologies by probation officers in Chile. To address this issue, we surveyed probation supervision officers (n=326) to explore the impact of COVID-19 on users, the officers themselves, and the use of remote supervision in six Chilean geographic macro-regions representing the entire country: Far North, North, Santiago (Metropolitan Region), South Central, South, South, and Far South. Our results suggest that probation officers drastically changed the way they contact users from communicating primarily in person to remote contact that includes video calls, calls, and text messages. The findings of this study suggest that users were greatly affected by the pandemic in different psychosocial aspects and showed low rates of access to technology. Finally, the macro-geographic analysis shows how demographics, characteristics of institutions, access to technology, and the impact of COVID-19 vary across the country
Koetzle, D., Mellow, J., Piñol, D., & Pugliese, K. (2021). Guía práctica de evaluaciones de riesgos y necesidades para jóvenes en América Latina y el Caribe. American Institutes for Research & John Jay College.
This guide provides an overview of risk and need assessments for youth on supervision. It is intended for agencies interested in adopting and implementing a tool to improve supervision and case management of youth in tertiary settings.
Koetzle, D. & Mellow, J. (2019). Improving prison management and community reintegration through risk, need, and responsivity. Revista de la Maestría en Administración Pública, 2, 187-202.
Prison overcrowding poses a number of problems for those who live in prisons and for those who administer the prisons. In recent years, the Salvadoran prison system has made significant efforts to reduce prison overcrowding through the construction of new prisons and the use of a progressive rehabilitation system to transfer eligible inmates to lower security institutions and their reintegration into the community. However, a number of structural challenges have resulted in a relatively small number of people moving through the progressive system. This paper argues that the risk, need and responsivity (RNR) intervention model can offer guidance to the Salvadoran prison system and its assessment, treatment and reintegration processes.An overview of the RNR is provided, along with general implications for prison management. The article concludes with recommendations in the Salvadoran context.
Mellow, J, Koetzle, D. & Vasquez, L. (2019). Evaluación de Equipos Técnicos Criminológicos para Reducir el Hacinamiento en las Prisiones Salvadoreñas.
This paper describes the results of a project designed to recruit and train Salvadoran criminological technical teams to draft early release proposals to reduce prison overcrowding. Included is an evaluation of the outcomes of the teams hired in 2017-2018 and a discussion of systematic challenges to implementation