RT Article
T1 The Future of Parole Release
JF Crime and justice
VO 46
IS 1
SP 279
OP 338
A1 Rhine, Edward E.
A2 Reitz, Kevin R.
A2 Petersilia, Joan 1951-2019
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1743530641
AB American parole boards have played a critical role in the formulation and administration of states’ prison policies in recent decades—and could play an equally important part in helping end mass incarceration. Long neglected by academic, research, and policy communities, systems of discretionary prison release are in need of improvement, if not “reinvention.” A plan for revitalization of parole release should lay out a comprehensive and aspirational model for the future. It must address the institutional structure of parole boards, how much release discretion they are given, the substantive grounds for release decisions, the use of risk assessments in the decisional process, decision-making tools such as parole release guidelines, the requirements of fair and reliable procedures, victims’ rights at parole hearings, the need for parole supervision in some but not all cases, the intensity of parole conditions, and the length of parole supervision.
K1 Parole
K1 United States
K1 USA
K1 Parole boards
K1 Parole conditions
K1 Parole supervision
DO 10.1086/688616