Journal article
The influence of technical violation revocations on parole efficacy: employing competing risks survival analyses to address methodological challenges
Journal of crime & justice, v 43(3), pp 323-341
26 May 2020
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Abstract
Failures among the community supervision population are a major contributor to prison populations. Revocations of parole supervision due to technical parole violations (TPRs) often result in the incarceration of a parolee for violating the terms of their supervised release. This study employs several strategies for integrating TPRs into the construct of recidivism, a common outcome measure in correctional evaluations. TPRs are either ignored, combined with rearrest, or treated as a competing risk to rearrest. Each framework is employed to estimate survival rates among multi-year prison release cohorts in which parolee supervision is stratified by actuarial risk level. Results suggest that the way TPRs are integrated into evaluations of parolee recidivistic behavior patterns can influence the magnitude and nature of a study's results. This is significant as costly policy decisions are often informed by evaluation research focusing on time to failure measures. Methodological and ideological remedies are proposed.
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- Title
- The influence of technical violation revocations on parole efficacy: employing competing risks survival analyses to address methodological challenges
- Creators
- Michael Ostermann - Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyJordan M. Hyatt - Drexel UniversitySamuel E. DeWitt - University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Publication Details
- Journal of crime & justice, v 43(3), pp 323-341
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Criminology and Justice Studies; Center for Public Policy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000548819500004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85076456003
- Other Identifier
- 991019168349504721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Criminology & Penology
- Law