This paper will argue that, similar to the growth in prisons that has resulted in our current state of mass incarceration, the tremendous growth in probation supervision in the United States over the past several decades should be reversed, and the entire system of probation significantly downsized. |
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Less Is More: How Reducing Probation Populations Can Improve Outcomes (2017)
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