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- Title
PROBLEMS OF PAROLE.
- Authors
Allen, Robert M.
- Abstract
The article discusses the relationship that exists between parole success or failure and certain selected factors which help shape the lives of men paroled from the reformatory. It determines the degree to which these relationships may be used as bases for devising better methods of parole supervision. The data for the present study were gathered from the case records of 200 parolees from a large eastern reformatory. One hundred had successfully completed the maximum sentence and earned parole discharge, the other 100 had been returned to the institution for parole violation. These 200 men had been either discharged or rearrested during 1935. Information regarding the possession or nonpossession of the traits comprising the 18 factors was recorded on a specially devised data schedule. Eleven of the 18 factors analyzed are associated with the actual parole period. Of these, eight are closely related to successful parole outcome and merit the close attention of the parole case worker. It was found that parolees who retain familial affiliations and move about infrequently are more likely to succeed on parole than those who change their family connections and do not settle in one home.
- Subjects
PAROLE; FAMILIES; ALTERNATIVES to imprisonment; CRIMINAL sentencing; WORK release of prisoners; HOME (The concept)
- Publication
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (08852731), 1947, Vol 38, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
0885-2731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1138813