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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 Feb 2020
TL;DR: The authors investigated why students perceive that school personnel fail to respond to bullying, including ways in which they could fail to see, notice, or respond to the bullying, and found that students used their agency to understand and counteract school personnel's lack of response.
Abstract: Although research has shown that students and school personnel believe that adults respond to bullying at different rates, it is unclear why these differences occur. Using open-ended survey responses from 189 students, this study investigates why students perceive that school personnel fail to respond to bullying. Students articulated a variety of reasons for school personnel’s lack of response, including ways in which they could fail to see, notice, or respond to the bullying. In turn, students used their agency to understand and counteract school personnel’s lack of response. Theoretical and policy implications are discussed.
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...Research has documented the multiple challenges associated with reentry, like housing and employment, along with complying with the requirements of probation or parole (Hattery & Smith, 2010; Travis, 2005)....
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...DISCUSSION Traditional prison environments are highly constrained and inconsistent with the demands and tempo of life outside of prison walls (Travis, 2005)....
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01 May 2009
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...Travis (2005) surveys the landscape of failures at facilitating prisoner reentry and the social costs of this failure; Piehl (2002) explains how the legal environment can often hinder efforts to prepare inmates for post-release life, which is frequently characterized by little structure and a lack…...
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TL;DR: The authors assesses how reducing inmates' time served in prison, eliminating the use of prison for parole or probation technical violators, and decriminalizing "victimless" crimes could impact the financial costs of incarceration in the state of Texas.
Abstract: In the wake of the recent economic crisis state policymakers have begun to consider redirecting expenditures on corrections as a way to trim state budgets. Recent attention has focused on reducing prison populations as a solution. However, this is a politically charged issue that has to balance the needs of the government and criminal justice system in the milieu of resource scarcity, with the needs of the offenders, and the safety of the community. This paper assesses how reducing inmates’ time served in prison, eliminating the use of prison for parole or probation technical violators, and decriminalizing ‘victimless’ crimes could impact the financial costs of incarceration in the state of Texas. Implications for policy and evidence-based alternatives to incarceration are discussed.
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06 Apr 2012
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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: The authors explored the role of family, broadly defined, in prisoner reintegration using administrative data and in-depth interviews with former prisoners in Michigan, and found that families play a critical role in re-integration, but that their effects are complex and often countervailing.
Abstract: Since the mid-1970s the US has experienced an enormous rise in incarceration, which has been disproportionately experienced by minorities, particularly young black men, and those with low levels of education. The effects of incarceration are felt not just by the individuals who go to prison but by their families as well. In this chapter we explore the role of family, broadly defined, in prisoner reintegration using administrative data and in-depth interviews with former prisoners in Michigan. More specifically, we attempt to understand what kinds of family supports, obligations, and conflicts enhance or hinder reentry and reintegration after prison. Our results indicate that families play a critical role in reintegration, but that their effects are complex and often countervailing. Families provide essential material resources without which former prisoners would struggle to meet even basic material needs for food and stable housing, but whether and how family members enhance or threaten reintegration and desistance from crime depends on their social and economic resources, their own substance use and criminal behavior, their own health and caregiving needs, and the nature of their relationships with the former prisoner. Implications for future research and policy are discussed.
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