Parole criteria, parole decisions and the prison population: Evaluating the impact of the Criminal Justice Act 1991

Criminal Law Review

Volumn 1996, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 77-87

  Hood, Roger ^a   Shute, Stephen ^b  

^a ALL SOULS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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References (9)

1. Under section 44 the judge may order that, in the case of a sentence imposed for a sexual offence, the period of supervision will continue to the end of the sentence.
2. The Parole System in England and Wales: Report of the Review Committee (Carlisle Committee), Cm. 532 (H.M.S.O., 1988), para. 321.
3. Roger Hood and Stephen Shute, Parole in Transition: Evaluating the Impact and Effects of Changes in the Parole System. Phase One: Establishing the Base-Line (Occasional Paper No. 13, 1994). Obtainable from University of Oxford Centre for Criminological Research, 12, Bevington Road, Oxford OX2 6LH.
4. See Report of the Parole Board for 1992 (712) (1993, H.M.S.O.), para. 9 and Report of the Parole Board for 1993 (450) (1994, H.M.S.O.), para. 21.
5. See Report of the Parole Board for 1992 (712) (1993, H.M.S.O.), para. 9 and Report of the Parole Board for 1993 (450) (1994, H.M.S.O.), para. 21.
6. Roger Hood and Stephen Shute, Paroling With New Criteria. Evaluating the Impact and Effects of Changes in the Parole System: Phase Two (Occasional Paper No. 16, 1995).
7. Speech made to the Conservative Party Conference 1983, quoted in the Carlisle Report op. cit., para. 33. A few months came to mean up to but no longer than eight months. It is worth noting that in only one of 72 restricted category cases we observed in the base-line study was it argued that there were "exceptional" circumstances.
8. For a full explanation of how these calculations were made see Paroling With New Criteria, op. cit., paras. 86-88.
9. op. cit., para. 298.