Parole Officer Decision-Making Before Parole Revocation: Why Context Is Key When Delivering Correctional Services
Back-end sentencing is the discretionary, administrative process through which individuals on parole are returned to prison for violating the requirements of their supervised release. Parole officers play a crucial role in this process as they are the witnesses to the rule-breaking behaviors of peop...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Criminal justice policy review
Year: 2022, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 273-297 |
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| Summary: | Back-end sentencing is the discretionary, administrative process through which individuals on parole are returned to prison for violating the requirements of their supervised release. Parole officers play a crucial role in this process as they are the witnesses to the rule-breaking behaviors of people on parole supervision and ultimately must initiate the back-end sentencing process. This study explores predictors of parole officer decision-making when determining whether to consider a person for revocation or to gear programmatic community-based resources toward them in an attempt to decrease the likelihood of their eventual revocation. Our results indicate that if people released to parole are front-loaded programmatic resources as a part of their release conditions from prison, the odds that parole officers subsequently gear community-based programs toward them decreases by approximately 60%. Other factors such as demographics, actuarial risk levels, and criminal history were not significantly predictive of officer decision-making in this context. |
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| ISSN: | 1552-3586 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/08874034211035494 |