Special Needs Offenders: An Overview of Gangs in the Federal System (Part 1)
Channel: LawResourceOrg
Date: 2011-04-11

Federal Judicial Center. Special Needs Offenders: An Overview of Gangs in the Federal System (Part 1). This teleconference focuses on how federal probation and pretrial services officers can more effectively identify and manage gang members in their caseloads. The teleconference panel features two national experts, who discuss the investigation and supervision of gang members from the perspectives of federal probation and pretrial services and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The panel also includes four probation officers, who discuss strategies they have found to be effective in supervising offenders and defendants who belong to gangs, as well as officer safety as it relates to gangs.