Running Head: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY/HSP 430/SENTENCING ALTERNATIVES
Annotated Bibliography
Whitney Jarvis
Western Washington University
HSP 430
Professor Deiro
February 15, 2013
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America’s prisons. (2010). Detroit: Greenhaven Press.
This series pits opposing viewpoints against one another and explores many issues related
to incarceration and alternatives, providing insight and examination without drawing any
conclusions.
Aos, S., & Washington State Institute for Public Policy. (2005). Washington’s drug offender
sentencing alternative an evaluation of benefits and costs. Olympia, WA: Washington
State Institute for Public Policy. Retrieved from http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/rptfiles/05-011901.pdf
This report was published in 2005 and will provide information for a timeline of the
progress of the Drug Offender Sentencing Alternative.
Berliner, L., & Washington State Institute for Public Policy. (2007). Sex offender sentencing
options: views of child victims and their parents. Olympia, Wash: Washington State
Institute for Public Policy.
This report publishes the findings of an investigation into the outcomes of some offenders
sentenced with the Sex Offender Sentencing Alternative. Specifically, this report focuses
on outcomes in three counties - King, Snohomish, and Benton - and provides information
that includes the positions of the child victims and their parents.
Corrections, Department of - 130-10720. (2008). Washington State Digital Archives. Retrieved
February 15, 2013, from
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http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/B87A3A44D268C485DAA4F22C5E4B
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This Department of Corrections document explains what the Drug Offender Sentencing
Alternative's goals are and how the targeted population of offenders has been effected. It
also provides statistics and visual aids, current as of 2008.
Corrections, Department of - 130-19539. (2011). Washington State Digital Archives. Retrieved
February 15, 2013, from
http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/4B52AC6C1EF8D6F86B3B51573AB8
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This flier was distributed throughout the Washington State Department of Corrections to
help explain the Family Offender Sentencing Alternative.
Craissati, J. (2004). Managing High Risk Sex Offenders in the Community : A Psychological
Approach. Brunner-Routledge. Retrieved from
http://ezproxy.olympic.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct
=true&db=nlebk&AN=111053&site=ehost-live
This book explores several issues related to sex offenders, including penalizing, treating,
and managing sex offenders. Community involvement, escalation, vigilante actions and
likelihood to reoffend are all discussed.
Drake, E., & Washington State Institute for Public Policy. (2006). Washington’s drug offender
sentencing alternative an update on recidivism findings. Olympia, WA: Washington State
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Institute for Public Policy. Retrieved from http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/rptfiles/06-121901.pdf
This study provides information of the effectiveness of Washington State's Drug
Offender Sentencing Alternative program, including recidivism findings. It also includes
several visual aids, including charts and graphs. The body of this report illustrates the
need for further study and updated statistics related to the new community based DOSA
program.
Drake, E., & Washington State Institute for Public Policy. (2012). Chemical Dependency
Treatment for Offenders: A Review of the Evidence and Benefit-Cost Findings. Olympia,
WA: Washington State Institute for Public Policy. Retrieved from
http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/rptfiles%5C12-12-1201.pdf
Enos, R. (1999). Alternative sentencing: electronically monitored correctional supervision (2nd
ed.). Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall Press.
This book explores the alternative of home monitoring - an option being utilized by
Washington State's newest program, the Family Offender Sentencing Alternative - for
nonviolent offenders.
Handbook of forensic mental health with victims and offenders: assessment, treatment, and
research. (2007). New York: Springer.
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This book looks at drug courts, inmates with a history of drug abuse, and dual diagnosis
with addiction and other mental health disorders - all of which are common among
Washington State offenders.
Kitsap County Drug Court (n.d.) A citizen's guide to the Kitsap County adult drug court
[Brochure].
Meloy, M. L. (2006). Sex offenses and the men who commit them: an assessment of sex offenders
on probation. Hanover: University Press of New England [for] Northeastern University
Press, Boston.
This book explores the current legislation regarding sex offenses, as well as following sex
offenders who receive parole. There is also commentary from convicted sex offenders
regarding their reintegration into society.
Osler, M. (2009). Intensive Parenting and Banishment as Sentencing: Alternatives for Defendant
Parents. Federal Sentencing Reporter, 22(1), 44–47.
This journal article explores federal sentencing alternatives for parents, including the
banishment of parents who are hazardous to the development of their children.
Provine, D. M. (2007). Unequal under law: race in the war on drugs. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
This book examines the issue of race as it relates to past and present sentencing
guidelines that have the greatest impact on ethnic minorities in the United States.
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Sexual Assault Center (Seattle, Wash.), Urban Policy Research (Firm), & Washington (State).
(1991). The Special sex offender sentencing alternative: a study of decision-making and
recidivism: report to the Legislature. Seattle, Wash: The Center.
This book has been ordered but has not yet arrived. According to its summary, it contains
a report to the legislature on the Sex Offender Sentencing Alternative.
United States. (2008). Promoting inmate rehabilitation and successful release planning hearing
before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security ofthe Committee
on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session,
December 6, 2007. Washington: U.S. G.P.O. Retrieved from
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS107180.
.(United States, 2008)
This record of hearing dialogue takes a look at national and world wide prison statistics,
programs, successes, and failures as several people testify at a legislative hearing. This
information provides a broader view of the topic of criminal sentencing and recidivism.
Washington State Department of Corrections. (2006). Therapeutic Community offender
handbook.
Washington State Institute for Public Policy. (2006). Sex offender sentencing in Washington
State: special sex offender sentencing alternative trends. Olympia, WA: Washington
State Institute for Public Policy. Retrieved from http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/rptfiles/06-011205.pdf
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Washington State Office of the Attorney General. (2008). Meth Stats. In Washington State
Office of the Attorney General. Retrieved February 7, 2013, from
http://www.atg.wa.gov/alliedagainstmeth/stats.aspx#.UTKRBlfGMa8
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