Parole Prediction as Science
1935; Northwestern University Press; Volume: 26; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1135236
ISSN2160-0015
Autores Tópico(s)Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
ResumoThe science of prediction of the probability of success on parole of inmates released from penal institutions is a comparatively recent departure in the field of penology. Although more or less organized efforts hiad been made in isolated instances to develop a technique for judging in advance the likelihood of a particular delinquent to rehabilitate himself upon release, the first serious attempt to determine whether such prejudgments were feasible appears to be that of Prof. Sam B. Warner,' who in 1923 published the results of a study of the records on parole of ex-inmates of the Massachusetts Reform'atory. Professor Warner examined the records of 300 parolees who had succeeded, 300 parolees who had violated parole and 86 inmates who were not granted parole but were required to serve their maximum terms within the reformatory. Warner's article is an outstanding example of patient, thorough, fair-minded, scholarly examination of facts. Every statement is carefully weighed and thoroughly temperate, but absolutely fearless. The study investigates not only the factors considered by the Board of Parole in reaching its decisions, but also the potential value of each of sixty-four other items available to the Board but not utilized. The conclusions reached
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