Judicial Supervision across Populations and in Mainstream Criminal Courts

Judicial supervision is the use of multiple status review hearings by judicial officers to monitor the pre-plea, post-plea or post-sentence progress of criminal offenders, and is used throughout courts that address crime alongside its precipitating social issues in common law adversarial jurisdictions. This thesis systematically reviews the extant literature investigating judicial supervision and presents interviews with judicial officers from mainstream courts on their experiences judicially supervising individuals. Overall, the results reveal that judicially supervised programs associate with several benefits, such as greater reductions in recidivism. Further, there is considerable variability in how it is applied which affects its efficacy.