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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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TL;DR: In this article, Restorative and community justice operate across the micro to macro spectrum to address, repair or ameliorate harms caused by incivilities, crime, injustice and inequality.
Abstract: Restorative justice and community justice are non-traditional forms of justice that can be seen as mutually reinforcing (Gilbert & Settles, 2007). Although they have somewhat different foci, they carry many of the same values and employ similar dialogue processes (Bazemore & Schiff, 2001; Clear & Cadora, 2003; Clear, Hamilton & Cadora, 2011; Karp & Clear, 2002; Umbreit & Armour, 2010). They share the key values and principles of respect, equality, dignity, honesty, inclusivity, open dialogue, consensus decision-making, and a focus on addressing harms or community problems in meaningful ways that prevent future harms. In both, community is an essential element. With restorative justice community serves as the major force that promotes healing of victims and earned redemption for offenders. Community is recognised as a co-victim of incivilities and crime because these acts threaten the safety and security of all who live or work in it. Community justice recognises harms to the ‘fabric of society’ from individual actions but also recognises the structural role of community in transmitting injustices and inequalities downward to create circumstances and conditions that concentrate incivilities and crime in geographical spaces. Restorative and community justice operate across the micro to macro spectrum to address, repair or ameliorate harms caused by incivilities, crime, injustice and inequality. Despite these similarities, they employ different strategies. Restorative justice is victim-sensitive and focuses on reparation of harms to victims and their communities. Dialogue processes used in victim–offender mediation, family group conferencing,

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  • ...…in the state of 3 See Alexander, 2010; Anderson, 1999; Austin & Irwin, 2001; Beckett & Sasson, 2004; Messner & Rosenfeld, 2007; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 2011; Robinson, 2005; Rodriguez & Emsellem, 2011; Travis, 2005; Walker, Spohn & DeLeone, 2007; Waller, 2008....

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Dissertation
01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method to identify the root cause of violence in criminal justice and criminology, and applied it to the criminal justice domain, and found that:
Abstract: Thesis (Ph.D.), Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Washington State University

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  • ...The return to institutional corrections engages deterrence, preventing future mischief and therefore breeding greater compliance with the conditions of supervision (Travis, 2005)....

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  • ...The release process is front-loaded with interventions and treatment, all in coordination with best practices driven by empirical evidence (Petersilia & Turner, 1993; Travis, 2005)....

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  • ...Regardless of why offenders are punished and initially removed from society, 95 percent of them will be released at some point (Travis, 2005)....

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  • ...…for a noncriminal technical violation (TV) would yield far less fiscal cost to the state than if the offender were to commit a new crime, be reprocessed through the courts on a 17 new conviction, and subsequently be resentenced to potentially a longer time in prison (Parker, 1975; Travis, 2005)....

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  • ...have noted the prominence of parole violations (Glaze & Bonczar, 2008; Grattet, Petersilia, & Jeffrey, 2008; Petersilia & Turner, 1993) and others recognize such violations possess an inherent problem that should be investigated (Blumstein & Beck, 2005; Grattet et al., 2008; Travis &Lawrence, 2002; Travis, 2005), only a few have paid much attention to actual conditions or rules (Arluke, 1956; 1969; Travis & Latessa, 1984; Travis & Stacey, 2010)....

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TL;DR: For example, the authors found that prisoners are optimistic about their future after release from prison, but very little research addresses what makes them optimistic about the future of their lives after release.
Abstract: Desistance research has linked prison inmate expectations with positive outcomes after release, but very little research addresses what makes them optimistic about their future. Using data from a r...

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Cites background from "But They All Come Back: Facing the ..."

  • ...Some experiences, such as “La bodega de la Familia” (Shapiro & Schwartz, 2001; Travis, 2005), in which families are involved in the process of reentry and are helped with enacting their supportive role, may be an example of the kinds of policies that may be adopted to increase the involvement of…...

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  • ...Some experiences, such as “La bodega de la Familia” (Shapiro & Schwartz, 2001; Travis, 2005), in which families are involved in the process of reentry and are helped with enacting their supportive role, may be an example of the kinds of policies that may be adopted to increase the involvement of families....

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  • ...First, it may be useful to strengthen the relationship of inmates with their conventional families and to help families to provide this supportive role when they are willing to do so (Naser & Visher, 2006; Travis, 2005)....

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