parolee vs crook

parolee and crook both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
parolee	Yes	No	No	No
crook	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, crook is a hypernym of parolee; that is, crook is a word with a broader meaning than parolee:

parolee: someone released on probation or on parole
crook: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

Other hypernyms of parolee include criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw.

parolee (noun)	crook (noun)
someone released on probation or on parole	a long staff with one end being hook shaped
	someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
	a circular segment of a curve

parolee (verb)	crook (verb)
	bend or cause to bend