| Summary: | The recently introduced parole system in Malaysia aims at rehabilitating and ensuring prisoners' successful reintegration into the community. In discharging their statutory duties, the parole officers are subjected to two essential functions of rehabilitating and surveillance of the prisoners. Drawn from an ongoing doctoral study, this paper focuses on examining the roles of parole officers and their various challenges in implementing the system, This paper reveals that the dual roles of parole officers pose legal and operational dilemmas in performing their statutory duties, resulting in the tenuous balance between the surveillance and the rehabilitation roles of parole officers in reintegrating prisoners into the community. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier B. V. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies(cE-Bs), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
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