Product Overview
Probation and Parole: Theory and Practice, Ninth Edition takes a look inside the real world of probation and parole. Featuring a front-line practitioner's insights based on the author's extensive experience as a senior New York State parole officer, this book exposes readers to the complex, real world of probation and parole. Comprehensive in approach, this book provides a thorough understanding of the field of probation and parole covering these topics: history and administration, sentencing and the pre-sentence investigation, juvenile court, probation, institutions, and aftercare, prisons and community-based corrections, indeterminate and determinate sentences, the theory and practice of rehabilitation, parole supervision and special problems and programs. For future or practicing probation and parole officers.
