In recent years, the United States and England and Wales have witnessed growing re-incarceration rates. This growth is not only due to the courts sending more people to prison (‘front-end sentencing’), but also due to an increasing number of revocations of early release measures, mainly following technical violations of licence conditions (so called ‘back-end sentencing’). However, it is unclear whether the same phenomenon exists in other (European) countries. Therefore, we empirically studied prison recall decision-making processes in Belgium by file analysis, complemented with focus groups with the decision makers involved in the recall process of prisoners with a sentence of more than three years. We found that the recall process in Belgium is embedded in a strong narrative of ‘giving chances’ and that all decision makers deploy a large amount of discretion, which they use to make deliberate decisions in an attempt to facilitate parolees’ reintegration process. Non-compliance with imposed conditions does not automatically lead to recall and even when a parolee is sent back to prison, recall is framed by the decision makers as a step in the reintegration process, not the end of it.

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在比利时召回监狱：寻求重返社会的后端量刑

近年来，美国、英格兰和威尔士的再监禁率不断上升。这种增长不仅是因为法院将更多人送进监狱（“前端量刑”），还因为越来越多的提前释放措施被撤销，主要是因为技术违反许可条件（所谓的“回刑”）。结束判决'）。但是，尚不清楚其他（欧洲）国家是否存在同样的现象。因此，我们通过文件分析对比利时监狱召回决策过程进行了实证研究，并辅以焦点小组，其中决策者参与了三年以上刑期囚犯的召回过程。我们发现比利时的召回过程深深植根于“给予机会”的强烈叙述中，所有决策者都运用了大量的自由裁量权，他们利用这些自由裁量权做出深思熟虑的决定，以促进假释者重新融入社会的过程。不遵守规定的条件不会自动导致召回，即使假释者被送回监狱，决策者也将召回视为重返社会过程中的一个步骤，而不是结束。