COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE OF THREE CATEGORIES OF INSTITUTIONAL RELEASEES

• NCJ Number: 11048
• Author(s): W S Heaton; S Adams
• Date Published: 1969
• Length: 27 pages
• Grant Number(s): OLEA-089
• Sponsoring Agency: US Dept of Justice
• Corporate Author: District of Columbia Dept of Corrections
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/
• Publication Type: Statistics

Annotation

PAROLEES, CONDITIONAL RELEASEES AND EXPIREES HAD DIFFERING SUCCESS RATES FOR THE 36 MONTHS FOLLOWING THEIR RELEASE FROM A WASHINGTON, D.C. INSTITUTION.

Abstract

FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO OFFENDERS WHO WERE RELEASED FROM LORTON CORRECTIONAL COMPLEX WERE DIVIDED INTO THREE RELEASE CATEGORIES AND FOLLOWED FOR THIRTY-SIX MONTHS BY RECORD TO FIND OUT WHETHER THERE WAS VARIATION IN COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE BY RELEASE TYPE. PERFORMANCE IN THE COMMUNITY WAS DEFINED IN TERMS OF FREQUENCY OF BOOKING BACK INTO D.C. JAIL AND TYPE OF DISPOSITION AFTER BOOKING. THE PAROLEES WERE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL, FOLLOWED BY THE CONDITIONAL RELEASEES AND THEN THE EXPIREES. SOME OF THE DIFFERENCES IN PERFORMANCE MIGHT BE THE RESULT OF DIFFERENTIAL HANDLING BEFORE, DURING, OR AFTER RELEASE. THE FINDINGS INDICATE A NEED FOR MORE STUDIES ON INMATE TYPE AND PERFORMANCE AFTER RELEASE TO THE COMMUNITY. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT MODIFIED)