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Research project

Understanding the dossier's role in parole decisions

  • Research groups:
  • Lead researchers:
    Dr Ben Jarman
  • Status:
    Active

Project overview

This project aims to conduct research into the parole decision-making process for England & Wales, with a particular focus on how prison staff tasked with risk-assessing the progression and release of indeterminate- and extended sentence prisoners understand and approach their role in this process.

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Ben Jarman

Research Fellow (Anniversary Fellowship)
Research interests
  • Parole, risk assessment, and decision-making in criminal justice
  • Moral and ethical dimensions of punishment and imprisonment
  • Long-term imprisonment, life sentences, and prison adaptation across the life course
Connect with Ben

Email: b.jarman@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Ben Jarman & Ben Crewe, 2026
Type: bookChapter
Ben Jarman, Alice Ievins & Ben Crewe, 2026, Incarceration, 7
DOI:
Type: article
Ben Jarman, 2025
Type: report
Ben Jarman, 2025
Type: conference
Ben Jarman, 2025
DOI:
Type: report