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When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry
01 Jan 2003-
TL;DR: In this paper, a profile of returning prisoners is presented, along with a discussion of the changing nature of Parole Supervision and Services, and the role of the victim's role in prisoner reentry.
Abstract: Preface 1. Introduction and Overview 2. Who's Coming Home? A Profile of Returning Prisoners 3. The Origins and Evolution of Modern Parole 4. The Changing Nature of Parole Supervision and Services 5. How We Help: Preparing Inmates for Release 6. How We Hinder: Legal and Practical Barriers to Reintegration 7. Revolving Door Justice: Inmate Release and Recidivism 8. The Victim's Role in Prisoner Reentry 9. What to Do? Reforming Parole and Reentry Practices 10. Conclusions: When Punitive Policies Backfire Afterword
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TL;DR: Although only a small percentage of students had experienced the imprisonment of a parent, parental incarceration predicted violence perpetration in young adulthood, highlighting the need to explore the long-lasting effects of parental incarceration on prisoners’ offspring across the life course.
Abstract: Limited attention has been directed at adult children with a history of parental incarceration. The goal of the current study is to expand our understanding of the gendered effects of imprisonment on the adult offspring of incarcerated parents through the exploration of violence perpetration among a sample of young adults. Congruent with problem behavior theory, it is hypothesized that young adults who have been affected by parental incarceration will report greater aversive outcomes (i.e., more risk factors and violence perpetration) than their peers without a history of parental incarceration. Furthermore, it is hypothesized that parental incarceration predicts violent perpetration even after controlling for individual and familial risk factors and demographic characteristics. A series of bivariate and multivariate statistical models utilizing self-report data from 534 college students were generated to test said hypotheses. In addition, the moderating effects of students' sex and exposure to parental incarceration on the relationship between violence perpetration and risk factors were explored through the utilization of split logistic regression models. Roughly 1 in 10 (13.3%) students surveyed had experienced parental incarceration. As expected, students affected by parental incarceration were significantly more likely to perpetrate violence than their peers not affected by parental incarceration, net individual and familial risk. Although only a small percentage of students had experienced the imprisonment of a parent, parental incarceration predicted violence perpetration in young adulthood. These findings highlight the need to explore the long-lasting effects of parental incarceration on prisoners' offspring across the life course.
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...Although the effects of mass imprisonment on offenders and communities has been well documented (see, for example, Mauer & Chesney-Lind, 2002; Petersilia, 2003; Travis, 2005), the collateral consequences of incarceration on families, particularly children, has received less scholarly attention…...
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...Although the effects of mass imprisonment on offenders and communities has been well documented (see, for example, Mauer & Chesney-Lind, 2002; Petersilia, 2003; Travis, 2005), the collateral consequences of incarceration on families, particularly children, has received less scholarly attention (Arditti & Salva, 2013; Bernstein, 2005; Wakefield & Wildeman, 2013)....
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TL;DR: This paper analyzed data from a national sample of the U.S. population to assess public support for policies that deny former offenders access to job training programs, food stamps, and public housing.
Abstract: We analyze data from a national sample of the U.S. population to assess public support for policies that deny former offenders’ access to job training programs, food stamps, and public housing. We ...
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...Beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, the federal and state governments significantly restricted or denied felons’ access to a number of governmentprovided or subsidized benefits (Alexander, 2012; Middlemass, 2017; Petersilia, 2003)....
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TL;DR: This paper study the experiences of women being released from prison and find that women have great difficulty describing who they are as individuals, and they often relate this difficulty to past experiences of trauma.
Abstract: The analysis presented in this article is derived from a larger longitudinal project that attempts to study the experiences of women being released from prison. A focus of this research is to better understand the challenges that women face in achieving sustainable financial, emotional, and familial lives after release. The data consist of baseline interviews with 41 women who were incarcerated in a prison system in the midwestern United States and were within 6 months of release. The purpose of this substudy is to investigate the ways in which women prepare for the reshaping of their identities as they approach their release dates. Women in this study have great difficulty describing who they are as individuals, and they often relate this difficulty to past experiences of trauma. Their descriptions of self are typically ill defined, unstable, and extremely fluid. Many report that their understanding of themselves as addicts helps them to develop a clearer, more stable sense of self.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the impact of positive credentials on perceptions of individuals with criminal records and whether the effects of credentials differ by the type of conviction or the criminal record.
Abstract: Objectives:To assess the impact of positive credentials on perceptions of individuals with criminal records and whether the effects of credentials differ by the type of conviction or the criminal r...
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TL;DR: The Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) is assessing the impact on post-release offender behavior of reentry programs funded in 2002-2003 with more than $150 million in federal grant monies.
Abstract: The multi-site evaluation of the federal Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) is assessing the impact on post-release offender behavior of reentry programs funded in 2002–2003 with more than $150 million in federal grant monies. The multi-faceted SVORI programs provide prison- and community-based services and programming to help released prisoners successfully transition from prison to the community. Each program was locally designed and, thus, the programs vary considerably in approach, services provided, and target populations. Although the primary purpose of the multi-site evaluation is to determine the impact of the SVORI programs, an implementation assessment is being conducted to characterize the programs in order to answer the question “impact of what?” This paper provides a brief background on prisoner reentry and the SVORI, and examines the implementation and structure of the 89 reentry programs operated by the 69 SVORI grantees. The findings, based on a program director survey...
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...Equally well known is that prisoners (and, hence, future releases) are less educated, more drug involved, and more likely to suffer from health problems and mental illness than the general population (e.g., see Petersilia, 2003; Lattimore et al., 2004)....
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...…“invisible punishments”) include exclusions from certain professions (e.g., realtor or barber) and access to public benefits (e.g., student loans, public housing, or food stamps), as well as loss of parental rights (for reviews, see Petersilia, 2003; Maruna & Immarigeon, 2004; and Travis, 2002)....
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