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Abstract: 

When Alvin Cohn was called in to examine why an EM program was experiencing high curfew violations. EM staff was at a loss—yet the author was fairly quickly able to see problems with record-keeping, reporting, communication, and data management that almost entirely explained the high figures, which staff had believed reflected problem behaviors. The problem was with the program, not the offenders. This article draws on the author’s experience with this department and many others like it to argue for the need for outside audits—“fresh eyes”—as the only way to objectively evaluate EM program design and implementation.

Keywords: Independent Audits of EM

Affiliations:  1: Administration of Justice Services.