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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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02 May 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used 88 interviews of women in the Boston area who have had children by men who have served time and found that the salience and legitimacy of the criminal label has waned over time.
Abstract: The War on Drugs and subsequent growth of the U.S. prison system has disproportionately affected low-income individuals living in inner-cities. Since the 1980’s, men of color without a high school degree have been incarcerated at a higher rate than other groups in the U.S. Prior research has examined the outcomes of criminal offenders upon release, but less research has focused on the indirect effects of drugs and prison on women and families on the outside. This research utilizes 88 interviews of women in the Boston area who have had children by men who have served time. Findings suggest that the salience and legitimacy of the criminal label has waned over time. Additionally, women who grew up in neglectful or abusive homes may learn skills and knowledge that can benefit them as they enter motherhood. Finally, the dissertation concludes with a discussion of how mothers evaluate fathers and how they help ensure the best possible outcomes for their children.
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TL;DR: Results of cross-lagged dynamic panel models examining four waves of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative data demonstrate baseline between-individual differences and within-individual changes in family conflict, but not support, significantly relate to polysubstance use, suggesting that families play a criminogenic role in reentry.
Abstract: A large body of prior research has demonstrated a clear link between family support and desistance from substance use during reentry. Emerging research also suggests that family conflict may play an independent role in this process. Accordingly, this study moves towards an understanding of how baseline between-individual differences in both family support and conflict prior to release interact with within-individual change in the respective constructs to affect substance use during the reentry time period. Results of cross-lagged dynamic panel models examining four waves of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative data demonstrate baseline between-individual differences and within-individual changes in family conflict, but not support, significantly relate to polysubstance use. While these results suggest that families play a criminogenic role in reentry, a series of interaction terms demonstrates that within-individual increases in family support can help offset the negative influence of family conflict.
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Cites background from "But They All Come Back: Facing the ..."
...Prior work has shown that marital status relates to familial outcomes during reentry (Travis, 2005), and married men report lower drug use than non-married men during reentry (Visher, Knight, Chalfin, & Roman, 2009)....
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Dissertation•
01 Jan 2016
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: Soss and Schram as mentioned in this paper present Coloring the Terms of Membership: Reinventing the Divided Citizenry in an Era of Neoliberal Paternalism, which is an extension of our work.
Abstract: Coloring the Terms of Membership: Reinventing the Divided Citizenry in an Era of Neoliberal Paternalism Joe Soss, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin Sanford F. Schram, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College This paper is available online at the National Poverty Center Working Paper Series index at: http://www.npc.umich.edu/publications/working_papers/
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Cites background from "But They All Come Back: Facing the ..."
...7 The dramatic increase in incarceration, of course, began long before 1990 (Travis 2005: 21-38)....
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...8 In fact, the number of people sent back to prison for parole violations each year is now as high as the total number of prison admissions was in 1980 (Travis 2005: 40)....
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...…prison are placed on parole, and the number of people sent back to prison for parole violations is seven times higher than it was 20 years ago (Travis 2005: 40).8 As David 21 Garland (2001: 178) explains, this post-prison supervision entails a civic status that is inferior to what most…...
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