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The revolving door at the prison gate: Exploring the dramatic increase in recalls to prison
Nicola Padfield,Shadd Maruna +1 more
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In this article, the authors draw attention to the recent and extraordinary increase in the number of people in England and Wales recalled to prison during the licence period of their sentence by examining the published Parole Board and prison statistics, and suggest that current sentencing law and practice puts inappropriate emphasis on "front door" sentencing practices rather than the equally important "back door" practices of release, supervision and recall.Abstract:
In this article we draw attention to the recent and extraordinary increase in the number of people in England and Wales recalled to prison during the licence period of their sentence (by examining the published Parole Board and prison statistics). This is followed by a description of the existing law and the recent changes to it, which we suggest will exacerbate the current trend. We seek then to explain the increase by looking primarily at the US experience (which reveals a system which is costly, discriminatory and apparently ineffective at reducing crime) and at recent judicial review cases (which reveal a system which is increasingly acknowledged to be unfair), concluding that current sentencing law and practice puts inappropriate emphasis on ‘front door’ sentencing practices rather than the equally important ‘back door’ practices of release, supervision and recall. Unsurprisingly, the article ends with a call for much more research in this area.read more
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Changing lives? Desistance research and offender management
Elizabeth Weaver,Fergus McNeill +1 more
TL;DR: A literature review on desistance from crime as mentioned in this paper explores the purposes of offender management, understanding and supporting desistance, desistance and the process of offender engagement, desisting and compliance with offender management.
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When legitimacy is denied: Offender perceptions of the prison recall system
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the impact that recall can have on offenders' perspectives, despite the recent and dramatic rise in the number of released prisoners recalled to prison, and the impact of the recall on their perspectives.
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The Consolations of Going Back to Prison: What ‘Revolving Door’ Prisoners Think of Their Prospects
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted face-to-face interviews with sentenced male prisoners shortly before their release from prison to explore the factors that influence help-seeking for mental distress, the respondents talked more generally about their problems, concerns, and expectations on leaving prison.
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Gaining insight, changing attitudes and managing 'risk': Parole release decisions for women convicted of violent crimes
Kelly Hannah-Moffat,Carolyn Yule +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ a multi-method approach to determine the association between parole release and individual, offence and institutional characteristics, and analyse how parole board members reconcile past and unalterable factors in a woman's criminal background with concerns about her future dangerousness by assessing her degree of insight into her crime/s, criminogenic factors and triggers.
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Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives
TL;DR: Maruna as discussed by the authors argues that to truly understand offenders, we must understand the stories that they tell - and that in turn this story-making process has the capacity to transform lives, and provides a fascinating narrative analysis of the lives of repeat offenders who, by all statistical measures, should have continued on the criminal path but instead have created lives of productivity and purpose.
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When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry
TL;DR: In this paper, a profile of returning prisoners is presented, along with a discussion of the changing nature of Parole Supervision and Services, and the role of the victim's role in prisoner reentry.
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Crime and Justice: An Annual Review of Research
Michael Tonry,Norval Morris +1 more
TL;DR: The British Journal of Criminology (BJC) is a collection of essays in the social sciences which has achieved so high and consistent a standard of scholarship and presentation as discussed by the authors.
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Intensive Probation and Parole
Joan Petersilia,Susan Turner +1 more
TL;DR: In a randomized field experiment, the RAND Corporation evaluated a national ISP demonstration project in fourteen jurisdictions in nine states and found that the programs were implemented well, particularly with respect to probation and parole officers' contacts and drug testing but were less successful at increasing treatment participation.
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Poor discipline : parole and the social control of the underclass, 1890-1990
TL;DR: In this paper, Simon uses the practice of parole in California as a window to the changing historical understanding of what a corrections system does and how it works, and reveals how modern strategies of punishment relate to political and economic transformations in society at large.