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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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01 Jan 2021
TL;DR: This article reviewed recent trends in maternal incarceration and other forms of criminal justice system involvement and introduced the six empirical studies presented in this volume, including what is presented here, is creating additional opportunities for advancing recommendations for policy and practice.
Abstract: Although only 4% of the world’s women live in the United States, the United States accounts for more than 30% of the world’s incarcerated women. The vast majority of incarcerated women are mothers of minor children, and many affected children are young. Their children are exposed to numerous risks, on average, in addition to the heartbreaking experiences of separation and loss that occur when a mother goes to jail or prison. In the past two decades, historically high US incarceration rates and growing involvement of women in all forms of the criminal justice system have demanded that scholars, policymakers, and practitioners better understand how maternal involvement in the criminal justice system impacts children and families. This Brief focuses on mothers in the US criminal justice system and their children. The introductory chapter reviews recent trends in maternal incarceration and other forms of criminal justice system involvement and introduces the six empirical studies presented in this volume. Previous research on this topic has been foundational, but newly emerging research, including what is presented here, is creating additional opportunities for advancing recommendations for policy and practice.
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01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a survey consisting of quantitative and qualitative items to assess different variables among the inmates at the Boulder County Jail (BCJ) and found that mental health diagnoses, parental factors, and types of victimization as a child and adult, and how they are subsequently related to offending.
Abstract: The unprecedented concentration of the mentally ill in United States' jails and prisons has gained much attention in the past few decades, however little research has examined mental illness as a risk factor for offending. The current study utilizes a survey consisting of quantitative and qualitative items to assess different variables among the inmates at Boulder County Jail (BCJ). The current study intended to address this gap in the extant literature, and assessed for demographics, mental health diagnoses and services, parental incarceration and mental illness, substance use, offending histories, and victimization histories. The findings support extant research on the concentration of the mentally ill in jails, along with their disproportionate rate of parental incarceration and mental health problems, victimization, and high number of incarcerations. The current study also puts forth tentative relationships between specific mental health diagnoses, parental factors, and types of victimization as a child and adult, and how they are subsequently related to offending. Finally, the findings from this study provide areas for future research that could help disentangle the complicated relationships between mental illness and offending. 3 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would first and foremost like to thank my thesis chair and mentor, Dr. Joanne Belknap, for her continual work, advice, and support throughout the past year. She continually encouraged me to go above and beyond what I thought I could accomplish with both my honors thesis and undergraduate career. Dr. Belknap worked tirelessly for months to get this study approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and the Boulder County Jail (BCJ), and once approved, she coached me through the data collection and analysis, along with any other assistance that I asked for. I will forever be grateful to Dr. Belknap for helping me realize my passion for research with the inmate population and for reaffirming my goal to pursue a doctoral degree in Criminology. I would also like to thank my committee members, Dr. Radelet and Dr. Dimidijian for their support and encouragement throughout this process. I will never forget this experience, and I thank you for being a part of it. I would also like to thank the inmates of BCJ who were kind enough to participate in my study. Many inmates at the BCJ shared some highly personal and sensitive experiences, and I extremely grateful for their participation. I would also like to thank Sergeant Lydia Mitchell at BCJ, who has worked with us throughout …
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Cites background from "But They All Come Back: Facing the ..."
...Today the average offender is typically set up for failure upon release (Travis, 2005)....
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...This is supportive of research that has found that for many offenders there is a pattern of frequent cycling between the streets and incarceration, also known as a “revolving door” (e.g., Travis, 2005; James & Glaze, 2006)....
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...These findings confirm the frequent cycling in and out of correctional institutions that is seen in our society today (Torrey et al., 2010; Travis, 2005)....
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...Travis (2005) reports that these punishments are invisible because they are largely beyond the public view and typically take place outside the traditional sentencing framework....
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TL;DR: In this article, the results of a census of standard conditions of parole throughout the United States in 2020 were reported using in vivo qualitative content analysis, and the standard conditions were coded using in-vivo content analysis.
Abstract: This article reports the results of our census of standard conditions of parole throughout the United States in 2020. Using in vivo qualitative content analysis, we coded standard conditions of par...
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Cites background from "But They All Come Back: Facing the ..."
...Even more, nearly two thirds of the parole violators were revoked and returned to custody for technical violations of the conditions of supervision, one third for a new crime (Travis, 2005)....
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TL;DR: For instance, this article found that children behaved less generously toward peers with, versus without, incarcerated parents compared to peers with and without incarcerated parents, and that older children reported less certainty that peers had moral beliefs than their parents.
Abstract: Adults often respond negatively toward children with incarcerated parents. Yet, the developmental foundations for such negativity remain unclear. Two studies (N = 331 U.S. residents; plurality White; plurality male; data collected between Winter 2019 and Spring 2021) addressed this topic. Study 1 probed 5- to 6-year-olds' and 7- to 8-year-olds' inferences about peers with and without incarcerated parents. Children reported less certainty that peers with, versus without, incarcerated parents possess moral beliefs. Study 2 showed that among older children, inferences about parental absence did not fully account for this pattern of results. Across studies, children behaved less generously toward peers with, versus without, incarcerated parents. These studies illuminate how early socio-moral judgment may contribute to negativity toward children with incarcerated parents.
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