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Sociology Of Probation

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In 2005 men received probation at a rate of seventy- seven percent and women were allowed probation at the rate of twenty-three percent (Kaeble & Bonczar). Among these groups fifty-five percent of those given probation were white Americans, thirty percent were black Americans, thirteen percent were Hispanic and one percent were American Indian and Asian. During this period in 2005 seventy- two percent of the people who were granted probation was on active supervision while nine percent were on inactive supervision and one percent served residential or home confinement (Kaeble & Bonczar). Fifty percent of those awarded probation in 2005 were felony offenders and forty-nine percent had committed misdemeanor offenses, eighteen percent were …show more content…

White Americans were given paroles at an average of forty-one to forty-four percent while blacks received forty percent but fell to thirty- eight percent in two thousand fifteen, and Hispanics were awarded paroles at eighteen percent for all three years. During the years of two thousand five, fourteen and fifteen eighty-three percent of all parolees were actively supervised and five percent were not supervised( Kaeble & Bonczar). However, during these years inmates were not required to serve their maximum sentence and some only serve a year or more before receiving parole and others served less than a year before being paroled. Another interesting change noted during these years was the drop in violent felony crimes to twenty- six percent and property crimes dropped, but slightly rose again in two thousand fifteen to twenty-six percent (Kaeble & Bonczar). Probation and Parole statistics for the state of Tennessee in 2017 showed that forty-three thousand and seven men were released on probation(TDOC). The Black men released on probation totaled fifteen-thousand six-hundred forty-two, white males totaled twenty-five thousand six hundred and forty-seven, Asian males were two hundred and thirty-eight and American Indians totaled fifty-four(TDOC). The same year female blacks received probation at the rate of three thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, white females were eleven thousand three hundred thirty-two, Asian females fifty-three, Hispanic females one hundred and ninety-eight and Native American female Indians were twenty- one for a total of fifteen thousand four hundred and forty-three women released on probation for two thousand

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