With a foreword by Bruce WesternNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRShortlisted 2024 Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social JusticeThe most comprehensive critique of probation and paroleand a provocative and compelling argument for abolishing bothamp8212from the former Probation Commissioner of New York CityImagine if probation didnt exist. And I came to you withamp1080 million and 30000 people the courts considered troubled and troubling. Andamp10you could do anything you wanted with that money to make New York Cityamp10safer and help people turn their lives around. Would you go out and hire a thousandamp10civil serviceprotected bureaucrats to supervise people as they piss in a cupamp10once a week and to tell them to go forth and sin no moreamp8212Vincent Schiraldis Job Interview with NYC Mayor Mike BloombergWeamp8217ve heard a lot in recent years about the nearly 2.1 million people incarcerated in American prisons and jails. But what about the approximately 4 million more who are on probation and paroleamp8212monitored by the state at great expense and at risk of being sent to prison at the whim of a probation or parole officer for the least imaginable infractionVincent Schiraldi was New York City probation commissioner under Mayor Bloomberg supervising a system charged with monitoring 30000 people on a daily basis. In Mass Supervision he combines firsthand experience with deep research on the inadequately explored practices of probation and parole to illustrate how these forms of state supervision have strayed from their original goal of providing constructive and rehabilitative alternatives to prison. They have become instead Schiraldi argues a recidivism trap for people trying to lead productive lives in the wake of a criminal conviction.Schiraldi offers the first full and uptodate account of these two key aspects of our criminal justice system showing that these practices increase incarceration have little impact on crime rates and needlessly disrupt co