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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 paper, the authors investigated the debt burdens of a group of offenders in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, and assesses associations with health and social functioning, and found that participants who provided an estimate of their debt reported an average of $12,161 owed to the SDRO, compared to their verifiable average of$8,854.
Abstract: Financial sanctions are considered a cost-beneficial alternative to incarceration for lesser offences, but their use has limitations. This study investigates the debt burdens of a group of offenders incarcerated in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, and assesses associations with health and social functioning. Between October 2008 and June 2009, 156 participants of a reintegration programme operating in NSW prisons (the Justice Health Connections Project) completed face-to-face structured interviews concerning the nature, amount and impact of their debts. Copies of participants' NSW State Debt Recovery Office (SRDO) records were also obtained. Ninety-five per cent of participants reported debt to the SDRO. Participants who provided an estimate of their debt reported an average of $12,161 owed to the SDRO, compared to their verifiable average of $8,854. Eighteen per cent of participants with SDRO debt had incurred their earliest outstanding fine when they were younger than 18 years old. Sixty-four per cent ...
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...Moreover, respondents cited debt as a motive for their last non-drug related acquisitive crime (13%), and, consistent with the literature, also cited perceived negative impacts of outstanding financial penalties and court costs in key rehabilitative domains such as employment (67%) and relationships with their partners (60%) and families (61%) (Travis, 2005; Visher et al., 2004)....
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...These factors are in turn associated with community reintegration success and recidivism (Baldry et al., 2004; Martire, 2010; McCormack, 2007; Stringer et al., 1999; Travis, 2005; Visher et al., 2004) and are linked to financial penalties (Rosenthal and Weissman, 2007)....
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...(Travis, 2005; Visher et al., 2004)....
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29 Mar 2010
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a comprehensive source for understanding and intervening with children of incarcerated parents, focusing on the daunting clinical implications inherent in trauma throughout development, as well as social and political roles in ameliorating intergenerational delinquency.
Abstract: This book provides a comprehensive source for understanding and intervening with children of incarcerated parents. The text will focus on the daunting clinical implications inherent in trauma throughout development, as well as social and political roles in ameliorating intergenerational delinquency. This book conceptualizes the problem by using an ecological framework that is focused on the child. The book addresses developmental and clinical issues experienced throughout the trajectory of childhood and adolescence with a focus on interventions and social policies to improve outcomes for this under-studied group. The chapters explore individual, community, and national levels of programming and legislation.
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...Acknowledgments PART IFramework 3 1 Over the past 15 years, numerous studies from a variety of academic disciplines have examined the impact of parental incarceration on children (see Johnston, 1995; Parke & Clarke-Stewart, 2002; Braman, 2004; Travis, 2005; and Farrington & Welsh, 2007 for reviews)....
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TL;DR: This paper used interviews with parolees to illustrate how the parolee identity can promote the experience of status rejection and simultaneously foster conditions for humiliation, an emotional state that may impede one's ability to re-construct a conventional identity and reintegrate back into one's community.
Abstract: Research on status rejection has developed considerably over the past two decades and is applied in a number of different settings to better understand criminal and deviant behavior. Our research contributes to that body of work by examining the ways in which status rejection may create a potentially humiliating dynamic for individuals on parole. Specifically, we use in-depth interviews with parolees to illustrate how the parolee identity can promote the experience of status rejection and simultaneously foster conditions for humiliation — an emotional state that may impede one’s ability to both (re) construct a conventional identity and reintegrate back into one’s community.
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01 Sep 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether the stigma management strategies defendants anticipate using after mental health court exit are associated with their reported experiences during court and found that participants generally perceive the mental health courts as procedurally just, did not experience stigmatizing shame, and anticipate using the inclusionary coping strategy of education over the exclusionary strategies of secrecy and withdrawal.
Abstract: Drawing on Link and colleagues' modified labeling theory, this article examines whether the stigma management strategies defendants anticipate using after mental health court exit are associated with their reported experiences during court. Using survey data from 34 mental health court graduates, we find that respondents generally perceive the mental health court as procedurally just, did not experience stigmatizing shame, and anticipate using the inclusionary coping strategy of education over the exclusionary strategies of secrecy and withdrawal. Moreover, findings reveal that the anticipated use of stigma management strategies is associated with mental health court experiences in that procedural justice is associated with inclusionary coping strategies, while stigmatizing shame is associated with exclusionary coping strategies. We conclude by encouraging researchers to further explore the role of stigmatization and shame in specialty court contexts and to continue investigating these defendant perceptions of these courts' process.
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TL;DR: Despite recent advances in prisoner reentry and felony collateral consequences literature, the literature on collateral sanctions as mentioned in this paper remains underdeveloped, and the literature about the intended legal consequences of criminal conviction is sparse.
Abstract: Despite recent advances in prisoner reentry and felony collateral consequences literature, the literature on collateral sanctions—intended legal consequences of criminal conviction—remains underdev...
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...These consequences are generally said to be “unintended” and are associated with higher rates of recidivism (see Mauer & Chesney-Lind, 2002, and Travis, 2005, for extensive reviews of collateral consequences literature)....
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