Women Inmate Views on Parole - A Belated Report (From Changing Roles of Women in the Criminal Justice System - Offenders, Victims, and Professionals, P 129-152, 1985, Imogene L Moyer, ed. - See NCJ-99505)

• NCJ Number: 99512
• Author(s): J M Rogers
• Date Published: 1985
• Length: 24 pages
• Sale Source: Waveland Press, Inc.
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

The views of female inmates, male inmates, and criminal justice professionals were compared with respect to four aspects of parole: the characteristics of an ideal parole board, the role of the parole board, parole decisionmaking, and minimum sentences for different types of cases.

Abstract

Study data came from a 1962 questionnaire survey of 415 professionals, 34 female inmates in Washington State, and 147 male inmates. Composition preference of a hypothetical 5-member parole board were determined by ranking 16 occupations. The male and female inmates generally had similar preferences; the inmate group as a whole had varying degrees of agreement with professionals. All three groups of respondents included an attorney, a sociologist, and a psychiatrist on the hypothetical parole board. However, prisoners tended to favor a minister and reject a chief of police, while professionals had opposite views toward these positions. Also detailed are respondents' answers to questions about parole board members' educational qualifications and salary, role expectations for the parole board, and proper parole board responses to four hypothetical cases. Data tables, notes, and nine references are supplied.