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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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01 Jan 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a rich and multileveled collec� on of twenty-eight chapters that use varied lenses to examine the discourses that shape people's lives.
Abstract: This book is a rich and mul� faceted collec� on of twenty-eight chapters that use varied lenses to examine the discourses that shape people’s lives. The contributors are themselves from many backgrounds – diff erent academic disciplines within the humani� es and social sciences, diverse professional prac� ces and a range of countries and cultures. They represent a broad spectrum of age, status and outlook, and variously apply their research methods – but share a common interest in people, their lives, thoughts and ac� ons. Gathering such eclec� c experiences as those of student-teachers in Kenya, a released prisoner in Denmark, academics in Colombia, a group of migrants learning English, and gambling addic� on support-workers in Italy, alongside more mainstream educa� onal themes, the book presents a fascina� ng array of insights.
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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that self-control is an important component of agency and that it can help us understand how situational challenges influence a person's decisions in the process of desistance.
Abstract: This chapter presents the argument that structural factors influence agency in a more fundamental way than through merely providing opportunities or creating pathways for change. It is argued that self-control is an important component of agency and that it can help us understand how situational challenges influence a person’s decisions in the process of desistance. Traditionally, self-control has not received much attention in the field of desistance research. The General Theory of Crime (Gottfredson & Hirschi, 1990) maintains that self-control is a stable trait, unaffected by experiences in adulthood. Consequently, it is unsuitable for explaining discontinuity in criminal behaviour, or desistance. However, there is convincing evidence that self-control varies over time and is a situational construct, as opposed to a stable trait. As such, it is much more compatible with theories of desistance, including life-course and agency perspectives. The chapter discusses relevant recent developments in the fields of psychology and behavioural economics and presents a new theoretical view on the relationship between agency, self-control, crime, and desistance. This situational conceptualisation of agency and self-control incorporates the possibility that exposure to criminogenic settings can constrain agency. The implications of a new understanding of agency for empirical studies and theories of desistance are discussed.
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TL;DR: The specific responsivity principle is examined to provide offenders with treatment that takes into account their responsiveness to treatment, tied for example to their learning style, motivation, and gender, and it is concluded that client engagement in the context of reentry should look beyond responsivity and consider logistical factors alongside the better-recognized psychological and dispositional factors.
Abstract: The specific responsivity principle advises us to provide offenders with treatment that takes into account their responsiveness to treatment, tied for example to their learning style, motivation, and gender. We examine challenges to service engagement and attendance in a community-based program in a reentry setting, and consider how far they correspond with these factors. Drawing on qualitative accounts of parolee engagement in services provided by parolees, service providers, case managers, and parole officers, we identify a number of difficulties faced by clients. These include logistical factors that affect clients' physical ability to enroll in or attend programming (such as documentation, employment needs, and transportation problems) as well as elements of program and service delivery (such as client-provider matching, therapeutic style, and curriculum factors). We conclude that we should look beyond responsivity and consider logistical factors alongside the better-recognized psychological and dispositional factors, to understand client engagement in the context of reentry.
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...Having a more direct line to these agencies can facilitate the process of obtaining important documents and benefits that parolees often rely on when first released (Petersilia, 2003)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that a non-utilitarian approach to punishment does not necessarily conflict with parole, and they explore a way to enhance the communicative potential in the parole process and suggest that by recognizing and further incorporating the inherent communicative message in parole, they can increase or maximize the board's communicative capacity.
Abstract: The aims of retributive or nonutilitarian sentencing are said to conflict with parole as part of a determinate sentencing framework. In this article, we claim that a nonutilitarian approach to punishment does not necessarily conflict with parole. In particular, by adopting core elements of Duff's framework of communicative sentencing, we argue that parole inherently holds a communicative meaning in the form of retributive whisper and can thus be reconciled with a nonutilitarian approach to punishment. In addition, we explore a way to enhance the communicative potential in the parole process and suggest that by recognizing and further incorporating the inherent communicative message in parole we can increase or maximize the board's communicative potential. Finally, we discuss some benefits that can emerge from adapting a communicative sentencing framework to the parole process.
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01 Feb 2017
TL;DR: This article examined the prevalence and relative importance of informal employment among former prisoners in the Netherlands (N = 738) and found that a substantial part of these men work off-the-books.
Abstract: Off-the-books employment following release from prison Prior re-entry studies used administrative data to conclude that post-release employment rates are low. These studies may however underestimate ex-prisoners’ labour market participation as especially ex-prisoners are expected to work off-the-books. A prison record might for instance create a legal ban on certain occupations, pushing them towards the informal labour market. This study combines administrative with interview data to examine the prevalence and relative importance of informal employment among former prisoners in the Netherlands (N = 738). Multiple measurement strategies show that a substantial part of these men work off-the-books. About forty percent of these workers rely on it as their primary source of income, but many combine it with a formal job or social benefits. These findings raise concern and show that many post-prison jobs currently do not come to the attention of scholars or governmental organizations.
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...Exgedetineerden hebben een relatief klein en homogeen sociaal netwerk (Petersilia, 2003) en netwerkleden staan wellicht niet enkel positiever tegenover zwart werk maar kunnen ook de mogelijkheden daartoe aanbieden....
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...De economische activiteit onder ex-gedetineerden lijkt dus laag te zijn en die bevinding wordt ondersteund door veel (inter-)nationale studies (Bushway, 2006; Dirkzwager e.a., 2009; Petersilia, 2003; Van der Geest, 2011; Visher, Debus-Sherrill & Yahner, 2011)....
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