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  1. What Works. The National Institute of Justice has prepared an interesting summary report on the effectiveness of various types of criminal justice programs. See Lawrence W. Sherman, Denise C. Gottfredson, Doris L. MacKensie, John Eck, Peter Reuter, and Shawn D. Bushway, "Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, and What's Promising," National Institute of Justice Research in Brief (July 1998).

  2. Probation and Parole Data. The Bureau of Justice Statistics has complied a number of reports on probationers and parolees which may be obtained through their Web site http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov.

  3. Parole Revocation Hearings. The implications of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole v. Scott are examined at length in Craig Hemmens, Katherine Bennett, and Rolando V. del Carmen, "The Exclusionary Rule Does Not Apply to Parole Revocation Hearings: An Analysis of Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole v. Scott," Criminal Law Bulletin 35 (July-August 1999): 388-409.

  4. Prisoner Reentry. For a thorough discussion of current trends, see Jeremy Travis, But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry(Washington DC: The Urban Institute Press, 2005).








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