RAPID: Examining Community Corrections Agencies During COVID-19
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Project Description

The COVID-19 pandemic has created extreme challenges for community corrections agencies across the United States, a population at high risk for infectious diseases due to a prevalence of social, economic, and behavioral risk factors. Project RAPID will measure and track agency-level responses to prevent, contain, and respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. Additionally, this project will examine how community corrections (the largest arm of the corrections system) respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and balance public health and public safety. Consequently, this study will investigate the circumstances under which community supervision agencies alter their policies and procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic while examining the pandemic's impact on community supervision officers' physical and mental health. Through surveys and interviews with community supervision administrators and officers, and based on a theory of organizational change, this project will take a longitudinal approach to examine how community corrections agencies adapt during the COVID-19 pandemic. These methods will enable a study of the circumstances under which community supervision agencies alter their policies and procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. This project will produce data and research results that will provide key information on the strategies agencies use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings will aid scholarship and agency decision-making in response to the COVID-19 pandemic while informing the development of plans to protect correctional staff and clients' health and well-being in future infectious disease events.

Translational Perspective

The goal of our study is to collect data from agencies across the country and share it widely to help agencies develop their prevention/response strategies and share information.

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Contact Infomation: First name
Jill
Contact Information: Last name
Viglione
Contact Information: Position title
Assistant Professor
Contact Information: Institutional affiliation
University of Central Florida
Contact Information: Email address
jill.viglione [at] ucf.edu
City/State/Country

Orlando, Florida, USA