NCJ Number
223211
Date Published
2007
Length
18 pages
Annotation
This chapter is about probation and parole for women discussing the terminology used to identify probation and parole services and the nature of those services, and discusses, in generality, the effectiveness of parole for women and the literature about what works in probation and parole supervision.
Abstract
It is apparent that at least in some places considerable use is made of community-based supervision for women with proportionately fewer women than men receiving sentences of imprisonment. There is some evidence that women may benefit from parole in particular and that multiple problems which women offenders face may make them particularly suitable for community-based supervision. Support is given to the view that women may benefit from a more relationship oriented style of supervision which provides personal support, and a holistic approach to the many problems which women offenders face. This chapter examines the role of probation and parole in responding to the needs of women who offend and considers whether women are helped more and do better after prison if they are supervised on parole. It outlines a project that examined the effectiveness of parole for women released from prison in Victoria, Australia in 2003. Figures, tables, references