Outcome of Split Sentence Offenders Under Supervision in the Federal Jurisdiction

• NCJ Number: 81912
• Author(s): N Parisi
• Date Published: 1978
• Length: 70 pages
• Grant Number(s): 76-SS-99-6038
• Sponsoring Agency: National Criminal Justice Information & Statistics Service
• Corporate Author: Des Moines-Polk Cty
• Sale Source: Des Moines-Polk Cty
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Working Paper 5 - Third in a series of 3 reports of a study completed in 1977 on the split sentence in the Federal jurisdiction

Annotation

The outcomes of offenders sentenced to the split sentence (brief period of incarceration followed by a period of probation) in the Federal jurisdiction and offenders sentenced to only probation are examined.

Abstract

Data from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and one district court were used for analysis. Prior studies on the impact of the split sentence have shown that the outcome of split sentence offenders was more negative than that of probationers, regardless of jurisdiction, even after critical variables were controlled. In this study, outcome or impact was determined by behavior resulting in removal from active supervision in the national data set and behavior resulting in new arrests and convictions in the district court data set. A Burgess method and multiple regression were used to create groups with comparable characteristics (i.e., risk) for a comparison of the outcomes of offenders sentenced to the split sentence and the outcome of regular probationers. Regardless of the criteria used to determine unfavorable outcome, no substantial differences (with one exception) were found between the outcome of probationers and split sentence offenders. A total of 17 footnotes and 22 references are provided. A list of variables contained in the data are appended, and tabular data are provided. (Author summary modified)