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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: In the wake of the economic crisis of the late 2000s, renewed national attention has turned to the topic of financial education as discussed by the authors, which is particularly salient for low-income individuals who may lack both knowledge of and access to mainstream financial institutions.
Abstract: 45 Introduction In the wake of the economic crisis of the late 2000s, renewed national attention has turned to the topic of financial education. Former President Bush created the first President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy in January 2008 (The White House, 2008) following the collapse of the subprime lending market. President Obama similarly followed suit by creating the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability in January 2010. This new emphasis on financial capability, which is defined as “the capacity, based on knowledge, skills, and access, to manage financial resources effectively” (The White House, 2010, Section 1), is particularly salient for low-income individuals who may lack both knowledge of and access to mainstream financial institutions (Anderson, Zhan, & Scott, 2004; Johnson & Sherraden, 2007; Lim, Livermore, & Davis, 2011).
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...Alcohol and drug addictions are far more prevalent in incarcerated populations than the general population (Fazel, Bains, & Doll, 2006), and affect a large percentage of incarcerated individuals (Petersilia, 2003)....
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...Incarcerated individuals represent a distinct low-income group for whom financial capability appears to be important because the vast majority will eventually be released and seek to participate in the formal economy (Henderson, 2005; Petersilia, 2003)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how the experience of presences, pasts, futures, etc. are essential structures in the decidedly non-dormant being of fathers, and profoundly shape the way prisoners orient toward or away from life, hope, and despair.
Abstract: Studies of incarcerated men frequently describe their incapacitation as fathers. This phenomenological study challenges the notion that fathering must necessarily go dormant in prison. It provides a sensitive look at the lived experiences of one particular father who has maintained contact with his daughter over the past 18 years of his incarceration. By carefully disclosing his daughter’s presence (real and imagined) in his day to day ‘doing time’ in prison, the study explores how temporalities—the experience of presences, pasts, futures, etc.—are essential structures in the decidedly non-dormant being of fathers, and profoundly shape the way prisoners orient toward or away from life, hope, and despair. Implications for prison-based parenting and family literacy projects are discussed.
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TL;DR: In this paper, social distance, or the level of familiarity and rapport, within the officer-offender relationship is important in reducing recidivism and promoting desistance in the criminal justice system.
Abstract: Social distance, or the level of familiarity and rapport, within the officer–offender relationship is important in reducing recidivism and promoting desistance. Although examined in a variety of co...
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...…influence community supervision outcomes, including age (Steiner et al., 2012), education level (E. A. Anderson & Spanier, 1980), job experience (Petersilia, 2003), caseload size/composition (Steiner et al., 2012), and officer rehabilitative attitude (Fulton, Stichman, Travis, & Latessa, 1997)....
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...Anderson & Spanier, 1980), job experience (Petersilia, 2003), caseload size/composition (Steiner et al....
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TL;DR: In this paper, a sample of young ex-prisoners in Hong Kong receive little familial/social support, and finding legitimate employment is difficult for returning ex-convicts in the city.
Abstract: While prisoner re‐entry has garnered increasing interest in Western scholarship, scarce attention has been paid to the situation in Hong Kong, despite it possessing one of the higher imprisonment rates in Asia, and its reliance on custodial sentences to rehabilitate young offenders. Drawing upon the experiences of a sample of formerly‐incarcerated young males, this article informs on how young ex‐prisoners receive little familial/social support, and how finding legitimate employment is difficult for returning ex‐prisoners in Hong Kong. Young ex‐prisoners perceive themselves to be facing the challenges of re‐entry alone. Implications and recommendations for government and social services are discussed.
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...The challenges of prisoner re-entry are well documented in the literature (for example, Petersilia 2003)....
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...In the era of mass incarceration, and thus large numbers of returning inmates, academics have increasingly focused on the problems of prisoner re-entry in the past two decades (for example, Maruna 2001; Petersilia 2003; Travis 2005)....
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01 Jan 2020
TL;DR: Bainbridge and West as discussed by the authors posit the growth of fundamentalism as a search for certainties and propose that Keats' notion of negative capability (the ability to accept uncertainty) may offer an alternative lens.
Abstract: Alan Bainbridge and Linden West offer a theoretical discussion of (mainly) contemporary British society with particular reference to Stoke-on-Trent, the home of the Workers’ Education Association and a city still struggling to adjust following the decline of the pottery industry. They posit the growth of fundamentalism as a search for certainties and propose that Keats’ notion of negative capability (the ability to accept uncertainty) may offer an alternative lens
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