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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 2009
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TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative study examined the perceived barriers to women's success on parole and found that women parolees identified economic variables as critical barriers to their parole adjustment, and that women are faced with daunting challenges that may impede their success.
Abstract: The number of women under community supervision has increased in recent years. However, empirical research on women parolees’ experiences is quite limited. Women parolees are faced with daunting challenges that may impede their success on parole. Using face-to-face interviews with 60 women parolees in a Southern state, this qualitative study examined the perceived barriers to women’s success on parole. Women parolees identified economic variables as critical barriers to their parole adjustment.
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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: The authors argue that prisoner reentry research may be improved by systematically drawing on life-course perspectives and, conversely, that life-courses theoretical perspectives may be better by systematically investigating reentry.
Abstract: The goal of this chapter is to argue both that prisoner reentry research may be improved by systematically drawing on life-course perspectives and, conversely, that life-course theoretical perspectives may be improved by systematically investigating reentry. The salience of these arguments stems from the fact that reentry populations in the USA have increased dramatically and thus present a significant policy challenge (Bushway & Apel, 2012; Mears & Mestre, 2012). At the same time, they present an opportunity to understand better the unfolding of offending over time and what leads some individuals to persist in crime and others to desist.
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TL;DR: The authors analyzed the predictors of contact and visitation with children during immigration detention and found that demographic background, the type of detention facility, and children's legal status substantially affect contact-and visitation experiences.
Abstract: The population detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement more than doubled between 2001 and 2013, swelling to over 477,000 individuals. Despite this growth, few studies analyze the experiences of detained immigrants. We draw from one of the first studies of detention in the United States, analyzing survey data from 565 noncitizens detained for six months or longer in California. Criminal incarceration literature finds that family visitation helps maintain social ties but is not evenly distributed. We analyze the predictors of contact and visitation with children during immigration detention. Results indicate that demographic background, the type of detention facility, and children’s legal status substantially affect contact and visitation experiences. Findings suggest that immigration detention replicates experiences of criminal incarceration and is perpetuating inequality in immigrant communities.
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TL;DR: The U.S. penal system now houses around 2.2 million people in state and federal prisons and local jails, and incarcera tion rates are highest among racial and ethnic minorities and the poor.
Abstract: GROWTH IN AMERICAN 1 prison and jail populations over the last 40 years has propelled the U.S. incarceration rate to the highest in the world and made incarceration commonplace for residents of poor inner-city communities. The U.S. penal system now houses around 2.2 million people in state and federal prisons and local jails, and incarcera tion rates are highest among racial and ethnic minorities and the poor (Glaze & Kaeble 2014; Western, 2006). Historically high rates of incarceration pro duced large cohorts of prison releases—over 600,000 annually—who entered a relatively small number of mostly poor neighbor hoods, often equipped with few social policy supports. Large numbers of prison releases motivated research on the effects of incarcera tion on crime and other social and economic outcomes, including employment, health, and the well-being of children with incarcer ated parents (Travis, Western, & Redburn
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...Men and women released from prison are a large, hard-to-reach population that are often only weakly attached to households, often residing with family and friends or in homeless shelters, and revolving in and out of institutional settings (Travis, 2005; Goffman, 2014; Metraux, Roman, & Cho, 2007)....
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