Early Release from Incarceration: Race as a Factor in the Use of "Shock Probation"

Abstract

In July, 1965, the Ohio General Assembly enacted a statute providing a means for the early release of incarcerated felons from a correctional institution.3 The statute permitted * Revision of a paper presented at the Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, April, 1973. This paper was supported in part by a grant (380-00-J-70) from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration through the State Planning Agency of the Ohio Department of Economic and Community Development to the Ohio State University Center for the Study of Crime and Delinquency. Such support of funding agent does not necessarily indicate concurrence with the contents or recommendations within.