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Full Report Executive Summary	March 2001
The Effects of Parole on Recidivism: Juvenile Offenders Released from Washington State Institutions. Preliminary Findings. Robert Barnoski, Steve Aos
For a one-year period, the 1997 Legislature eliminated Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration (JRA) parole for all but sex offenders and the highest-risk offenders leaving JRA institutions. Subsequently, the 1999 Legislature reinstated parole for all offenders leaving those institutions. In order to determine whether parole services influenced subsequent criminal conduct, the Legislature directed the Washington State Institute for Public Policy (Institute) to compare outcomes of youth with and without parole. The Institute compared the recidivism rates of those juveniles released without parole in fiscal year 1999 to a similar group released with parole during the previous year. Document ID: (01-03-1201)

Keywords: courts, crime, delinquency, evaluation, jra, juvenile court, juvenile justice, juvenile offenders, juvenile rehabilitation administration, juveniles, outcome, outcomes, probation and parole, program evaluation, rehabilitation, probation, parole