This article reports on a study designed to examine the perceptions of house arrest (HA) and electronic monitoring (EM) among offenders who have recently experienced this criminal sentence. Data were gathered via a self-administered questionnaire and follow-up interviews with a sample of offenders. Our primary areas of interest were to assess (a) the extent to which HA and EM are perceived as punitive, (b) the extent to which this sanction impacts the offenders at home and at work, and (c) to explore the ways in which this criminal sanction impacts family members. While HA with EM was perceived as being less severe than incarceration, it is clear that HA with EM is experienced as a punitive criminal sanction.

This article presents the findings of an exploratory study of parole release and parole failure as seen through the eyes of inmates who have been returned to prison following parole revocation. The small sample of revoked inmates was limited to parolees of a young adult offender (YAO) program. The YAO program was designed for young men who were (a) under the age of 18 at the time of conviction, (b) waived to the adult system, and (c) sentenced to a term of imprisonment in an adult prison. This research project used qualitative interviews to explore perceptions about parole supervision and revocation. The men described their experiences and thoughts about parole from the perspective of parole failure. The authors believe the insights of the men can inform discussions about reentry and efforts to enhance parole services for recently released inmates.Release from prison and reintegration of offenders into the free community are critical issues for all parties involved in correctional policy makingcorrections professionals, other criminal justice and related agency officials, academics, and most particularly offenders themselves. This article presents the results of a qualitative study of the parole experience as seen through the eyes of young men whose parole had been revoked and who had returned to prison. We interviewed young men from a special population: adolescents sentenced as adults to serve prison terms in an adult institution.The goal of qualitative research is to enter the world of the research participant and to see and understand that world as the participant does. For this project, we sought to understand what it is like to be a young man leaving prison and learning to negotiate the free community. Our purpose was to see

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