TY - JOUR
T1 - Probation revocation
T2 - A proportional hazards model of the conditioning effects of social disadvantage
AU - Albonetti, Celesta A.
AU - Hepburn, John R.
PY - 1997/2
Y1 - 1997/2
N2 - Most studies find that offender's age, gender, ethnicity, prior arrest record, severity of the current offense and level of supervision significantly influence time to probation failure. There is little evidence to show that treatment interventions significantly affect either the likelihood of failure or the time to failure. We propose that an offender's prior record and lower education level - indicators of social disadvantage - directly affect the mean time to a probation revocation. Further, we suggest that social disadvantage may condition the effects of other offender characteristics, incident offense characteristics, and treatment intervention on failure time. Using a proportional hazards model of probation revocation, we find that intervention increases the risk of failure, as well as partial support for our hypothesis of the conditioning effect of offender's social disadvantage.
AB - Most studies find that offender's age, gender, ethnicity, prior arrest record, severity of the current offense and level of supervision significantly influence time to probation failure. There is little evidence to show that treatment interventions significantly affect either the likelihood of failure or the time to failure. We propose that an offender's prior record and lower education level - indicators of social disadvantage - directly affect the mean time to a probation revocation. Further, we suggest that social disadvantage may condition the effects of other offender characteristics, incident offense characteristics, and treatment intervention on failure time. Using a proportional hazards model of probation revocation, we find that intervention increases the risk of failure, as well as partial support for our hypothesis of the conditioning effect of offender's social disadvantage.
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U2 - 10.2307/3096877
DO - 10.2307/3096877
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0039415288
SN - 0037-7791
VL - 44
SP - 124
EP - 138
JO - Social Problems
JF - Social Problems
IS - 1
ER -