In 2001 the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing received funding from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to conduct an evaluation of Restrictive Intermediate Punishment sentences involving substance abuse treatment.  The study was conducted by Professors John Kramer and Jeffery Ulmer of Penn State University as part of a research partnership with the Commission.  Phase I of the project, which was an examination of the shifts in sentencing from incarceration to RIP programs, was completed in December 2002.  Phase II of the project, which was a recidivism study of offenders’ sentences to RIP programs, was completed in December 2006.  

Reports

2006 Evaluation of RIP D&A Treatment: Final Report
2006 Evaluation of RIP D& A Treatment: Executive Summary

Research Bulletins

2007 Evaluation of Restrictive Intermediate Punishment Drug and alcohol Treatment
2003 Impact of the 1994 and 1997 Revisions to Pennsylvania’s Sentencing Guidelines.

Publications

2004 Ulmer Jeffery and van Asten, Christine.. “Restrictive Intermediate Punishments and Recidivism in  Pennsylvania”.  Federal Sentencing Reporter, vol. 16. no. 1, February 2004