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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, the authors explored frontline workers' views of interprofessional and interagency collaboration among frontline workers working with offenders suffering from substance abuse issues in their reintegration after prison.
Abstract: The Norwegian Correctional Service is well known for its focus on rehabilitation and the humane treatment of offenders. However, welfare issues and comorbidity are overrepresented among offenders, and recidivism rates remain unacceptably high. Mental health problems, substance abuse and a lack of housing suggest that offenders need support from a range of services in their reintegration processes. This calls for collaboration between frontline workers, welfare agencies and non-governmental organizations, especially in the transition from prison back into society.
In the present study, we aim to explore frontline workers’ views of interprofessional and interagency collaboration among frontline workers working with offenders suffering from substance abuse issues in their reintegration after prison.
Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine frontline workers employed in welfare agencies and the correctional service, with workers directly engaged in supporting offenders´ reintegration after prison.
Findings suggest that interprofessional collaboration is perceived as multifaceted. The participants in the study perceived the welfare needs of offenders as complex, and the transition phase from prison as particularly vulnerable. Finally, findings suggest that frontline workers’ individual values and engagement in the work, as well as a lack of shared knowledge and shared information among frontline workers, are perceived as important factors in how collaboration processes unfold.
We further argue that there is a need for additional knowledge, such as theoretical frameworks and conceptual models, to increase the understanding of interprofessional collaboration in the interface between prison and welfare services. We discuss substance abusers’ transition from prison into society and interprofessional collaboration in this context, using relational coordination as a theoretical framework.
This study shows that relational coordination contributes to a greater understanding of interprofessional collaboration in the prison-welfare context, but an understanding of this phenomenon may be further developed by expanding the theory of relational collaboration, and by using other relevant theories and models. New insights are presented and illustrated, combining the theoretical and practical aspects of interprofessional collaboration.
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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this article, a dustere, okonomische metapher is presented, which is doppelt irrefuhrend: erstens erfahren die meisten ehemaligen Strafgefangenen keine Wiedereingliederung, sondern eine anhaltende Zirkulation zwischen Gefangnis and ihren enteigneten Wohngegenden, aus der sie vertrieben wurden; zweitens sind die mit
Abstract: Der Gefangnisboom in Amerika nach der Burgerrechtsbewegung ist nicht auf Profitstreben, sondern auf die Staatsfuhrung zuruckzufuhren. Folglich mussen wir die Schimare „Gefangnis-Industrie-Komplex“ vernichten und die daraus abgeleiteten Geschichten von der Industrie rund um die Wiedereingliederung von Gefangenen aufgeben. Diese dustere, okonomische Metapher ist doppelt irrefuhrend: erstens erfahren die meisten ehemaligen Strafgefangenen keine Wiedereingliederung, sondern eine anhaltende Zirkulation zwischen Gefangnis und ihren enteigneten Wohngegenden, aus der sie vertrieben wurden; zweitens sind die mit der Uberwachung beauftragten Institutionen keine Marktteilnehmer, sondern Bestandteil des burokratischen Feldes, wie es von Pierre Bourdieu charakterisiert wurde. Die Uberwachung nach der Haftentlassung ist offizieller Bestandteil des „Prisonfare“, welches „Workfare“ durch organisatorische Isomorphie erganzt und zur neoliberalen Umgestaltung des Staates beitragt. Einrichtungen zur Wiedereingliederung sind kein Gegenmittel, aber eine weitere Regierungsmasnahme zur Eindammung von Straftaten, um Problemkategorien und -bereiche in der dualisierten Stadt zu bewaltigen. Um die wirtschaftliche Irrationalitat und burokratischen Absurditaten bezuglich der Uberwachung von Straftatern, ob in Freiheit oder hinter Schloss und Riegel, zu fassen, sollte unsere theoretische Inspiration nicht der radikalen Kritik des Kapitalismus, sondern der Neo-Durkheimschen Organisationssoziologie und der Neo-Weberschen Theorie des Staates als klassifizierende und stratifizierende Kraft entspringen.
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01 Jan 2010
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: The majority of people involved with the criminal justice system are under community supervision as discussed by the authors, and managing this population to facilitate their success in becoming law-abiding citizens is a huge challenge for community supervision agencies across the country.
Abstract: The majority of people involved with the criminal justice system are under community supervision. In 2009, 5 million of the 7.2 million individuals under some form of criminal justice system control were supervised in the community (Glaze 2010). Although all individuals under supervision are required to report regularly to their supervising officer, the intensity and structure of supervision varies considerably according to the risk of reoffense. Managing this population to facilitate their success in becoming law-abiding citizens is a huge challenge for community supervision agencies across the country as they struggle to distribute scarce resources across their supervised population without diluting interventions and monitoring to the point of ineffectiveness. Providing the appropriate level of supervision and intensity of treatment based on an individual’s assessed risk and need is the key to meeting that challenge.
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