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Colleagues:

More than 5.1 million adults are currently under community supervision in the United States, a fact with substantial implications for public safety and public spending.  Among these offenders, a majority of the serious crimes are committed by a small fraction of people, in a small number of crime-ridden neighborhoods, during the first few months of probation or parole.

This concentration of crime—by person, place and time—offers extraordinary opportunities for policy makers to improve public safety and save millions in corrections budgets through a strategy of targeted supervision.   Maximum Impact: Targeting Supervision on Higher-Risk People, Places and Times , a new publication from the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States, takes a closer look at targeted supervision and the innovative probation and parole tactics for reducing victimization while conserving taxpayer dollars.

This publication is part of an ongoing series of policy briefs published by The Pew Center on the States.  We hope you will find it informative, and that it will help probation and parole agencies focus their efforts on higher-risk offenders, in higher-risk neighborhoods, at higher-risk times through a strategy of targeted supervision.

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