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Abstract: 

To a great degree, the efforts of correctional professionals to implement evidence-based practices (EBP) are ill-fated. While much is now known about confronting the “wicked problems” of offender criminal behavior and recidivism, repeated endeavors to translate principle into practice have rarely produced predicted outcomes. The core of the problem, as outlined in part one of this series (Domurad, 2010), lies in practitioners’ inability to collaborate both within and outside their own organizations, thereby precluding them from applying available knowledge and solutions to the work that they do. Over and over again, they find themselves engaged in a justice version of Humpty Dumpty, where probation and parole agencies, along with their prosecutorial, defender, and judicial counterparts, focus on their own small piece of the broken criminal justice shell to the detriment of the egg as a whole. This piece is a follow-up to Domurad’s 2010 piece and outlines a solution to this problem.

Keywords: reform

Affiliations:  1: The Carey Group.