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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: This article examined whether the improvement in immigrants' relative incarceration rates over the last three decades is linked to increased deportation, immigrant self-selection, or deterrence, and found that the process of migration selects individuals who either have lower criminal propensityities or are more responsive to deterrent effects than the average native.
Abstract: The perception that immigration adversely affects crime rates led to legislation in the 1990s that particularly increased punishment of criminal aliens. In fact, immigrants have much lower institutionalization (incarceration) rates than the native born - on the order of one-fifth the rate of natives. More recently arrived immigrants have the lowest relative incarceration rates, and this difference increased from 1980 to 2000. We examine whether the improvement in immigrants' relative incarceration rates over the last three decades is linked to increased deportation, immigrant self-selection, or deterrence. Our evidence suggests that deportation does not drive the results. Rather, the process of migration selects individuals who either have lower criminal propensities or are more responsive to deterrent effects than the average native. Immigrants who were already in the country reduced their relative institutionalization probability over the decades; and the newly arrived immigrants in the 1980s and 1990s seem to be particularly unlikely to be involved in criminal activity, consistent with increasingly positive selection along this dimension.

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TL;DR: This article develops state-level estimates based on demographic life tables and extends previous national estimates of the number of people with felony convictions to 2010 and discusses the far-reaching consequences of the spatial concentration and immense growth of these groups since 1980.
Abstract: The steep rise in U.S. criminal punishment in recent decades has spurred scholarship on the collateral consequences of imprisonment for individuals, families, and communities. Several excellent studies have estimated the number of people who have been incarcerated and the collateral consequences they face, but far less is known about the size and scope of the total U.S. population with felony convictions beyond prison walls, including those who serve their sentences on probation or in jail. This article develops state-level estimates based on demographic life tables and extends previous national estimates of the number of people with felony convictions to 2010. We estimate that 3 % of the total U.S. adult population and 15 % of the African American adult male population has ever been to prison; people with felony convictions account for 8 % of all adults and 33 % of the African American adult male population. We discuss the far-reaching consequences of the spatial concentration and immense growth of these groups since 1980.

158 citations


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

  • ...Nevertheless, people convicted of felonies face more substantial and frequently permanent consequences (Ewald and Uggen 2012; Travis 2005; Uggen and Stewart 2015)....

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  • ...Scholars have also chronicled the spatial concentration of incarceration and correctional supervision (Clear 2007; Justice Mapping Center 2010; Muller and Wildeman 2016; Travis 2005)....

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TL;DR: In this article, a social psychological approach is used to examine stigma from the perspective of formerly incarcerated persons, and three scales were constructed to assess 229 formerly incarcerated individuals' perceptions of stigma toward former prisoners as a group, themselves personally, and actual rejection experiences.
Abstract: A social psychological approach is used to examine stigma from the perspective of formerly incarcerated persons. Three scales were constructed to assess 229 formerly incarcerated persons' perceptions of stigma toward former prisoners as a group, themselves personally, and actual rejection experiences. Results indicate that perceiving more stigma is related to having multiple parole violations, identifying more strongly with other former prisoners, growing up in a neighborhood where going to prison is more normative, having weaker social bonds to family and friends, and a person's race/ethnicity (white, non-Latino). Implications for formerly incarcerated persons and the need for additional research about stigma are discussed.

156 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a conceptual framework for theorizing this heterogeneity and its impacts, evaluating visitation research, and guiding future research aimed at estimating visitation effects, and systematically examined heterogeneity in visitation and the implications of this heterogeneity.

153 citations


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

  • ...It also has led, as recent reviews have highlighted, to the observation that relatively little is known about the effects of prison experiences on inmate behavior and reentry outcomes (Petersilia 2003; Travis 2005; Nagin et al. 2009; Cullen, Jonson, & Nagin 2011)....

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TL;DR: The needs of women offenders may be qualitatively different than the needs of male offenders as discussed by the authors, and the "pathways" and "gender-responsive" perspectives of female offending have recently garnered attentio...
Abstract: The needs of women offenders may be qualitatively different than the needs of male offenders. The “pathways” and “gender-responsive” perspectives of female offending have recently garnered attentio...

152 citations


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

  • ...However, with prisoner reentry initiatives (Petersila, 2003; Travis, 2005) and the notion that offender’s needs affect one’s risk of reoffending on release, a number of states are beginning to use dynamic risk/needs assessments in prisons (Salisbury et al., in press)....

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