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Family Support in the Prisoner Reentry Process: Expectations and Realities
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This paper examined the role of family in the prisoner reintegration process, exploring the views of soon-to-be-released prisoners regarding the family support they expect to receive as well as the...Abstract:
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Making Ends Meet After Prison
TL;DR: Findings reveal considerable struggle among former prisoners to meet even minimal needs for shelter and food, although economic security and stability could be attained when employment or public benefits were coupled with familial social support.
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Breaches in the Wall: Imprisonment, Social Support, and Recidivism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the different kinds of experiences prisoners have with visitation and the implications of those experiences for behavior after release, finding that individuals who maintain connections with their social networks outside of prison have lower rates of reoffending and that the timing and consistency with which visitation occurs also affect criminal behavior.
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The Effects of Prisoner Attachment to Family on Re-entry Outcomes: A Longitudinal Assessment
TL;DR: This paper found that visits from parents are influential in improving prisoners' relations with their families and that those prisoners that experience improved family relations were significantly less likely to reoffend whilst also being more likely to find work and desist from class A drug use.
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Drug Use and Crime after Incarceration: The Role of Family Support and Family Conflict
TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between family support and family conflict among former prisoners and their effect on reentry and criminal desistance, finding that higher levels of family conflict coincide with increased odds of drug use and crime immediately following release from prison.
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Informal Social Support Among Returning Young Offenders A Metasynthesis of the Literature
TL;DR: The authors use a metasynthesis methodology to examine 13 qualitative articles and dissertations published in the United States from 1998 through 2010 and forge an understanding of informal social support that complicates its presumed benefits for the reentry of young offenders.
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The MOS social support survey.
TL;DR: The development and evaluation of a brief, multidimensional, self-administered, social support survey that was developed for patients in the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), a two-year study of patients with chronic conditions is described.
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Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life.
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Causes of delinquency
TL;DR: In Causes of Delinquency, Hirschi attempts to state and test a theory of delinquency, seeing in the delinquent a person relatively free of the intimate attachments, the aspirations, and the moral beliefs that bind most people to a life within the law.
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