“Criminal Justice System Flowchart.” Bureau of Justice Statistics. http://www.bjs.gov/content/largechart.cfm 
The flowchart of the events in the criminal justice system (shown in the diagram) updates the original chart prepared by the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice in 1967. The chart summarizes the most common events in the criminal and juvenile justice systems including entry into the criminal justice system, prosecution and pretrial services, adjudication, sentencing and sanctions, and corrections. A discussion of the events in the criminal justice system follows.

Miller, Joel. “Contemporary Modes of Probation Officer Supervision: The Triumph of the ‘Synthetic’ Officer?” Taylor & Francis. Justice Quarterly Volume 32 - Issue 2, March 12, 2013. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418825.2013.770546?journalCode=rjqy20.  
This article considers the continued relevance of law enforcement and social worker roles to probation officer practice, a central motif in community corrections scholarship. It also considers how these traditional functions are integrated into community-oriented supervision practices, increasingly emphasized in policy circles. Using Latent Class Analysis of data from a national community corrections survey, a four-class typology of probation officers was developed, based on their supervision practices. While classes vary according to the intensity of supervision, particularly in the engagement of third parties (family, community, and the police), there are no classes that correspond either to law enforcers or to social workers. Rather, officer classes are all “synthetic”—combining law enforcement and social work functions together in the same strategy. The analysis identifies a number of predictors of membership in more intensive supervision classes. These relate to ideological orientations, caseload characteristics, officer demographics, and agency progressiveness.

Lovins, Brian, Francis T. Cullen, Edward L. Latessa, and Cheryl Lero Jonson. “Probation Officer as a Coach: Building a New Professional Identity.” United States Courts. Federal Probation 82. no. 1(2018): 13-19, June 2018. https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/82_1_2_0.pdf 
The rapid and intractable growth of community supervision populations in a decades-long punitive era undermined the traditional rehabilitative ideal and ushered in competing visions of what constituted appropriate supervision (Phelps, in press; Simon, 1993). Although allegiance to human service supervision never vanished, many jurisdictions deemphasized behavior change through treatment in favor of risk management through a range of control- or deterrence-oriented approaches. These included the trumpeting of such practices as intensive supervision, drug testing, electronic monitoring, and, more recently, swift-certain-fair probation. With only occasional exceptions, these practices have proven to be ineffective or, at best, inconsistently and modestly successful (Cullen & Jonson, 2017; Cullen, Pratt, Turanovic, & Butler, in press; Petersilia & Turner, 1993; Schaefer, Cullen, & Eck, 2016)

Ramezani, Niloofar, Bhati, Avi, Murphy, Amy, Routh, Douglas, and Faye S. Taxman. "Reinventing Community Corrections." Health and Justice Journal. June 9, 2022. https://healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40352-022-00182-w. 
This article discusses fidelity scales from the RNR Program Tool and provides guidance on the importance of tool development processes to ensure accurate, valid, and reliable scales. The purpose of the RNR Program Tool is to create a modern, online tool integrating both the empirical (research) literature on effective practices and clinical standards on quality programming. This process minimizes the need for consultants by giving program administrators the ability to gather information on their programs, score them, and receive instant and targeted feedback with recommendations for improvement to assess their programs against empirical standards in the field. Furthermore, it provides a standardized tool that administrators can use to examine what type of individuals fare better in their programs. The provided targeted feedback can give the programs the ability to seek technical assistance or guidance in specific areas that can strategically strengthen their program.

• Alarid, L. F. (2016). Community-based corrections (11^th ed.). Cengage Learning.
• Barton-Bellesa, S. M., & Hanser, R. D. (2011). Community-based corrections: A text/reader. Sage.
• Bayens, G., & Smykla, J. (2012). Probation, parole, and community-based corrections: Supervision, treatment, and evidence-based practices (1^st ed.). McGraw-Hill Education.
• Champion, D. J. (2007). Probation, parole and community corrections (6^th ed.). Prentice Hall.
• Hanser, R. D. (2013). Community corrections (2^nd ed.). Sage.
• Hemmens, C. Belbot, B., & Bennett, K. (2013). Significant cases in corrections (2^nd ed.). Oxford University Press.
• Latessa, E. J., & Smith, P. (2015). Corrections in the community (6^th ed.). Routledge.
• Lutze, F. (2013). Professional lives of community corrections officers: The invisible side of reentry. Sage.
• Taxman, F. S., & Belenko, S. (2012). Implementing evidence-based practices in community corrections and addiction treatment.  Springer.

National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies.https://napsa.memberclicks.net/home 
The National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies’ (NAPSA) mission is to promote pretrial justice and public safety through rational pretrial decision making and practices informed by evidence. NAPSA’s core values include learning; transparency and open communications; objective standards; collaboration; dignity; respect; and professional integrity. NAPSA’s core strategic approach is to provide evidence based standards and education to individuals and agencies.

“Promising Victim-Related Practices in Probation and Parole.” The Role of Community Supervision in the Criminal Justice Process. Council of State Government/American Probation and Parole Association, n.d.. https://www.appa-net.org/eWeb/docs/APPA/pubs/PVRPPP.pdf 
According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 18.7 million people were victimized by a violent or property crime in 2010. Approximately 29 percent of individuals victimized by violence that year—or more than 1 million people—sustained an injury as a result of the crime committed against them (Truman, 2011). As a direct result of these crimes, victims suffer untold losses from property theft and damage, cash losses, medical expenses, and lost pay due to injuries or activities related to the crime.

• Olmsted County Community Corrections' Approach to Probation
  02/28/2020, 8 minutes

  Community Corrections has been on a journey to transform our practice of probation and parole. We interviewed parole officers as well as clients of DFO Community Corrections to get stories about their experiences. This short video shows the impact Olmsted County is making.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60TbR7isTRM&feature=youtu.be

• Dr. Brian Lovins: Probation Coaches on Criminal Justice Office Hours.
  10/17/2018, 33 minutes

  Dr. Lovins is the Assistant Director for Harris County Community Supervision and Corrections Department. In this 33 minute podcast from the University of Cincinnati, he discusses changing the role of probation officers from that of a referee to a coach and the impact that could have on criminal justice outcomes. 
  https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/criminal-justice/dr-brian-lovins-probation-7Z9Y8gt4avJ/

• PBS NewsHour: A personalized approach to probation saved Arizona $461 million
  04/07/2018, 8 minutes

  Maricopa County Adult Probation Department is a leader in probation reform, in this video  probation officers are engaging with offenders providing a supportive, individualized approach to community supervision.
  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-personalized-approach-to-probation-s...

• The Difference Between Probation and Parole.

  This YouTube video was produced by Lawinfo.com. It briefly discusses the difference between probation and parole.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXUZhaWdc3c