While reviewing the history, procedures and effects of the British parole system, in its political and penal policy contexts, the author examines the doctrine of correctionalism and the conflicting prin ciples of the 'justice model'. She discusses the effects of the under mining of correctionalism, points to developments in other countries, and suggests that 'the present compromise of policies gives little satisfaction, and the time appears ripe to reconsider the questions of justice and the limits of penal policy.
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This is available in the Parole Board's Annual Reports. See also E.E. Barnard: "Parole Decision-making in Britain", International Journal of Criminology and Penology (1976) 4, pp.145-159, and (abridged) in J. Baldwin and A. K. Bottomley (eds.): Criminal Justice—Selected Readings, (1978 ) pp.268-278, Martin Robertson.
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