Advent Releases Offense Index for 2025

Advent has released its Offense Index for Calendar 2025 which tracks the types of criminal offenses for which Advent eLearning clients assigned our online intervention courses.

In 2025, Advent delivered and supported almost 130,000 intervention courses for US criminal justice agencies. Advent serves hundreds of clients across the criminal justice spectrum, throughout the US, including prosecutors, courts, law enforcement agencies, and probation/community corrections.

Our online intervention courses are used in a variety of applications, including diversion and alternative sentencing programs, law enforcement pre-file diversions, court-ordered treatment programs, and for probation/corrections sanction applications.

Advent courses are designed specifically to address types of criminal behaviors; this index assumes our criminal justice clients are using the Advent eLearning platform to assign the online interventions most appropriate for the offenses committed.

Highlights

In 2025, around 26 percent of programs assigned were for misdemeanor traffic offenses, with growth driven primarily through the increased use of our behavioral-based Defensive Driving course in reckless, no-insurance and license suspension/reinstatement programs.

Twenty-six percent were assigned for substance offenses, including alcohol and marijuana offenses and violations. Another 16 percent of courses were assigned for theft and retail theft offenses.

Approximately 13 percent assigned general cognition programs for either nuisance violations or in general probation sanction applications. This cognitive-behavioral treatment methodology also forms the basis of Advent Level II courses, which continued to see solid growth.

Just over 11 percent of courses were assigned for personal conflict offenses such as misdemeanor assault or harassment. Almost three percent were assigned for juvenile and status offenses including underage alcohol or marijuana possession, school conflicts, and juvenile sexting. Growth was driven by the release of Advent's new course for juvenile nicotine use.

Finally, a combined five percent of interventions related to family court sanctions, firearm violations, prostitution buyers, animal and wildlife code violations, and financial crimes and fraud.

Course Key

The following are the online intervention programs tracked and matched to likely offenses:

Alcohol = Alcohol & Substance Abuse levels I & II; Impaired Driving levels I & II; Victim Impact Panel

Animal & Wildlife = Animal Care; Boating & Outdoors; Hunting Responsibility

Assault/Harass = Anger Management levels I & II; Harassment

Family = Parenting

Financial/Fraud = Financial Crimes

Firearms = Firearm Responsibility

Larceny = Shoplifting; Theft levels I & II

Marijuana = Marijuana & THC levels I & II

Nuisance/Other = Corrective Thinking; Life Skills

Obscenity/Moral = Prostitution; Revenge Porn

Status/Juvenile = Bullying; Juvenile Conflict Resolution; Juvenile Sexting; Underage Nicotine, Underage Alcohol & Substance Abuse levels I & II

Traffic Misdemeanors = Defensive Driving

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