Risk Assessment Practices for Sexual and Violent Offenders in Israel

Assy, Rabeea; Menashe, Doron

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“…Additional risk assessment reports are required in cases of sex and domestic violence offenders, and for offenders with mental-health issues (s. 12). These risk reports are based on static and dynamic factors that have been found to be statistically associated with recidivism (Assy and Menashe, 2016).…”

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Negotiating penal hybridity: Time–space boundary-work in parole decision making

Dagan

2022

Theoretical Criminology

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Drawn on qualitative findings from discretionary chairpersons of parole boards in Israel, the study aims to theorize parole decision making as time–space boundary-work. Parole decision-makers were found to act within a hybrid professional environment that requires them to process distinct, and possibly conflicting, penal values, competencies and orientations. In order to address their professional tensions, parole decision-makers constantly negotiate their time and space, and thereby their professional identity. First, the parole decision-makers perform temporal boundary-work—conceptualizing their work and identity through qualitative-expansive time. Second, they perform spatial boundary-work—conceptualizing their work and identity through either (a) judicial space or (b) therapeutic space. This time–space work is used both to span and demarcate their boundaries in relation to other penal actors and to increase their visibility and legitimacy.

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Negotiating penal hybridity: Time–space boundary-work in parole decision making

Dagan

2022

Theoretical Criminology

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“…yet the final evaluation and relative weights that ought to be attached to each factor in the specific circumstances remain at the discretion of the specific assessor (Ethical and Professional Rules §3.2.1). The MHC justifies its reluctance to use actuarial tools on the grounds that such tools have not been validated and tested on Israeli, non-English speaking subjects (Assy & Menashe, 2015).…”

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Retributive Considerations in Parole Proceedings

Assy

Menashe

2015

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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In "Looking Beyond Risk in Paroling Denying Prisoners," Dr. Dagan provided a refreshing critical analysis of the role of retributive considerations in parole proceedings. Its main argument is that if we are to make sense of the insistence on an admission of guilt, we cannot discuss parole proceedings merely in terms of prevention and risk. What is actually in play, at least in part, is retribution and moral evaluation. Taking retributive considerations into account enables a better understanding of the importance that admissions assume in parole proceedings and their role as a means of moral repentance and catharsis. In this brief commentary, we discuss Dagan's thesis, offering a few remarks on the relationship between retribution and prevention. We provide some details on the nature of parole proceedings and on the practices that may increase the likelihood of moral and retributive considerations being taken into account contrary to the will of parliament and to the stated principles of parole.

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Risk Assessment Practices for Sexual and Violent Offenders in Israel

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Negotiating penal hybridity: Time–space boundary-work in parole decision making

Negotiating penal hybridity: Time–space boundary-work in parole decision making

Retributive Considerations in Parole Proceedings

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