Jason D. Brown University of Manitoba _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to describe the needs of newly released federal offenders as perceived by community parole officers. Seventy-four parole officers were asked to answer the following question: “What do offenders need to succeed in the first 90 d...

This study explores the impact of the Effective Practices in Community Supervision (EPICS) model on offender perceptions of their collaborative working relationships with supervising probation or parole officers. The data in this study was collected as part of an EPICS project at the University of Cincinnati. The results examine the nature and quality of offender perceptions of their probation ...

Assessing an inmate's risk for recidivism may become more challenging as the length of incarceration increases. Although the population of Long-Term Inmates (LTIs) is burgeoning, no risk assessment tools have been specifically validated for this group. Based on a sample of 1,144 inmates released in a state without parole, we examine the utility of the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R) ...

Community supervision agencies have been increasingly burdened during the past three decades — supervision caseloads have increased significantly, more high-risk offenders have been sentenced to probation or released to parole, and operating budgets have remained stagnant . The natural consequence of increased caseloads comprised of higher-risk offenders combined with insufficient resources is ...

In Rose v. Haskins,' the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reiterated the orthodox view that since a prisoner parole system is not constitutionally compelled, parole status is merely a "privilege" regulated by statute and not circumscribed by either the specific constitutional guarantees applicable to a criminal proceeding nor the traditional safeguards of procedural due process. However, ...

English. Automated lexical simplification has been performed so far focusing only on the replacement of single tokens with single tokens, and this choice has affected both the development of systems and the creation of benchmarks. In this paper, we argue that lexical simplification in real settings should deal both with single and multi-token terms, and present a benchmark created for the task....