Parole and prisoner reentry in the United States

Article Abstract:

Issues regarding the need for programs to reduce parole recidivism are discussed, as well as the need for a new parole model incorporating advances in technology, risk prediction, and effective rehabilitation. These reforms would be more effective than parole abolition, as they would decrease the risk to the public posed by parolees likely to reoffend and increase the chances they would succeed.

Parole

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Youth violence in America

Article Abstract:

The possible reasons for the increase of American youth violence is discussed. The article examines whether youth violence stems from demographic changes, children's exposure to violence in mass media, the emergence of gangs as a substitute family structure, and the increased availability of guns.

Children, Crime, Juvenile delinquency

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American prisons at the beginning of the twenty-first century

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Issues regarding the trends in American prisons during the last quarter century are discussed. Key issue clusters are imprisonment's collateral effects, crime control effects, prisoners-prison staff relations, and the political economy of prisons.

History, Prisons, Criminal justice, Administration of, Administration of criminal justice

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