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But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry
12 Apr 2005-
TL;DR: Travis as mentioned in this paper proposes organizing the criminal justice system around five principles of reentry to encourage change and spur innovation, and argues that the impact of returning prisoners on families and communities has been largely overlooked.
Abstract: As our justice system has embarked upon one of our time's greatest social experiments?responding to crime by expanding prisons?we have forgotten the iron law of imprisonment: they all come back. In 2002, more than 630,000 individuals left federal and state prisons. Thirty years ago, only 150,000 did. In the intense political debate over America's punishment policies, the impact of these returning prisoners on families and communities has been largely overlooked. In But They All Come Back, Jeremy Travis continues his pioneering work on the new realities of punishment in America vis-a-vis public safety, families and children, work, housing, public health, civic identity, and community capacity. Travis proposes organizing the criminal justice system around five principles of reentry to encourage change and spur innovation.
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27 Apr 2018
TL;DR: This paper contributes to the debate on desirable correctional services systems by presenting four national case studies on the welfare, rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners, and how each country regulates and institutionalizes these aspects of the penal system.
Abstract: This paper contributes to the debate on desirable correctional services systems by presenting four national case studies on the welfare, rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners, and how each country regulates and institutionalizes these aspects of the penal system. The countries analysed are: Canada, known for its community involvement in release approach; Norway, known for its strong welfare system; Japan, known for its decreasing prison rate; and Malaysia, known for its efforts in the deradicalization and reintegration of prisoners with extremist ideologies.
To create a comparable basis for analysis between the different countries, a comparative scale was developed based on the revised United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules). The scale allows the welfare, rehabilitation and reintegration dimensions of correctional services in each country to be classified in three categories (insufficient, sufficient and excelled). In addition to these three dimensions, the prison regime of each country was analysed to allow the national prison context to be considered in the country comparison.
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...1 See Petersilia (2004), Travis (2005), and Hucklesby and Hagley-Dickinson (2007)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors lay out a 10-point program for the improvement of discretionary parole release systems in America, and their recommendations coalesce into an ambitious model that has never before existed in the US. Even if adopted separately, their recommendations would work substantial incremental improvements in the current practices of all paroling systems.
Abstract: This article lays out a 10-point program for the improvement of discretionary parole release systems in America. Taken together, our recommendations coalesce into an ambitious model that has never before existed in the US. Even if adopted separately, our recommendations would work substantial incremental improvements in the current practices of all paroling systems.The article is written by three authors who have taken sharply different views on the fundamental question of whether contemporary determinate or indeterminate sentencing systems have been the more successful systems across American states. Likewise, the authors have given different advice to jurisdictions on whether parole release should be retained, abolished, or reinstituted (Rhine 2012; Petersilia 2003; Reitz 2004). Nonetheless, the authors agree that discretionary parole-release is an important feature of U.S. sentencing and corrections that will not disappear in the foreseeable future — and all three share a common interest in improving those systems as much as possible. Indeed, regardless of one’s views on the “determinacy/indeterminacy” debate, it would be irresponsible not to give assistance to the majority of states that continue to vest meaningful authority over prison sentence length in paroling agencies.
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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of these policies on U.S. drug arrest rates over a 27-year period was investigated and it was shown that, while all zero-tolerance policies have the same deterrence objective, each policy can have drastically different impacts on drug crime.
Abstract: For years, policy makers and researchers have investigated the relationship between drug use and crime. Beginning in the early 1980s, the United States adopted more punitive approaches in order to deter drug use and distribution. While much research has been done on the effects of zero tolerance and similar policies, this study attempts to estimate the impact of these policies on U.S. drug arrest rates over a 27-year period. We use state-level panel data to estimate the impact of habitual drug offender laws, repeat drug offender laws, and sentencing enhancements for drug offenses on U.S. drug arrest rates. We find that repeat and habitual drug offender laws have a non-significant relationship with drug arrest rates. However, sentencing enhancement laws have a significantly negative relationship with drug arrest rates. These results imply that, while all zero tolerance policies have the same deterrence objective, each policy can have drastically different impacts on drug crime. These results highlight the need for the United States to consider alternative policy solutions.
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TL;DR: The Offender Rehabilitation Act (ORA) 2014 has extended post-release supervision to all individuals serving short sentences in England and Wales as discussed by the authors, a cohort who previously faced neglect within the c...
Abstract: The Offender Rehabilitation Act (ORA) 2014 has extended post-release supervision to all individuals serving short sentences in England and Wales – a cohort who previously faced neglect within the c...
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In this article, the women in transition program at the University of Northeastern is described as an "application of RELATIONAL Theory to an EVALUATION of a MINIMUM SECURITY CORRECTIONAL CENTER for FEMALE Offenders".
Abstract: OF DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Law, Policy, and Society in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Northeastern University April 30, 2008 4 THE WOMEN IN TRANSITION PROGRAM: APPLICATION OF RELATIONAL THEORY TO AN EVALUATION OF A MINIMUM SECURITY CORRECTIONAL CENTER FOR FEMALE OFFENDERS
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...A key collateral consequence of women’s incarceration is that children are left behind -- some of them functionally orphaned (Norman, in Gabel & Johnston, 1995), others left with an aging caretaker, often a maternal grandmother (Baunach, 1984; Bloom & Steinhart, 1993; Hairston, 1990), and most financially marginalized (Travis, 2005)....
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...…incarceration is that children are left behind -- some of them functionally orphaned (Norman, in Gabel & Johnston, 1995), others left with an aging caretaker, often a maternal grandmother (Baunach, 1984; Bloom & Steinhart, 1993; Hairston, 1990), and most financially marginalized (Travis, 2005)....
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