The three papers on innovations in clinical treatment report on the effectiveness of Traumatic Incident Reduction in reducing symptoms of depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder in women inmates, as well as the use of Family Empowerment Intervention to reduce youth recidivism. Two papers report on studies that focused on innovations in assessment. One study documented the effectiveness of using the Addiction Severity Index to predict treatment outcome for substance-abusing parolees. The second study validated the High Risk Situations Questionnaire for a sample of young offenders in a forensic hospital. This is an instrument designed to assess the self-reported importance of various antecedents to a past, highly salient offense. Three papers address current research and clinical practices. One of these papers traces the evolution of electronic monitoring, identifying and analyzing the philosophical, systemic, and political issues surrounding this sanction. Based on analyses of these issues, implications are drawn for research and policy. Another study used a self-report questionnaire to identify the sociodemographic and criminogenic factors that distinguish between Arkansas boot camp inmates who had committed three or more violent offenses and those who had committed two or less. The concluding paper documents the changing demographics and programs at the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women between 1982 and 1998. For individual papers, see NCJ-184541-48.