The United States' high incarceration rate gets a lot of attention from scholars, policy makers,
and the public. Yet, writes Michelle Phelps, the most common form of criminal justice …

Decisions tied to parole release, supervision, and revocation are major determinants of the
ebb and flow of prison populations across two-thirds of US states. We argue that parole …

Brangan (2013) Brangan, L.(2013). A framework for comparative research on supervision?
Offender Supervision in Europe, blog-site. Retrieved from http://www. offendersupervision …

This paper aims to contribute to debates about 'mass supervision'by exploring its penal
character as a lived experience. It begins with a review of recent studies that have used …

While the scale and consequences of mass incarceration in the United States have been
well-documented over the past two decades, sociologists have focused less attention on …

Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in
the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and …

Based on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 45 in-depth interviews with formerly-
incarcerated men, this article explores how former prisoners navigate criminal justice and …

Drawing from an ethnographic project within the California (USA) parole system, this article
traces how field personnel evaluate individuals and attempt to anticipate future conduct. It …

How might parole operate as a labor market institution, and how might it contribute to the
governance of poverty and social marginality? Drawing on a series of correctional …

This article explores the ways in which practices of risk assessment exert material and
semiotic effects that structure how penal subjects are constituted, imagined, and governed …