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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 this paper, a needs assessment and goal-planning process at a community-based agency soon after release from prison was described, where participants and social service providers made programmatic recommendations that go beyond social services to address economic and self sustainability in the transition from prison to community.
Abstract: SUMMARY One hundred women participated in a needs assessment and goal-planning process at a community-based agency soon after release from prison. The assessment indicated some fit between women's identified needs and how they placed themselves on “contemplation” ladders that facilitated their planning for reentry. Follow-up interviews with 14 women found a high level of satisfaction with the process, though they struggled with unmet goals. Participants and social service providers made programmatic recommendations that go beyond social services to address economic and self sustainability in the transition from prison to community.

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TL;DR: DeMichele et al. as mentioned in this paper presented an open access article for free and open access by the Sociology & Criminal Justice at ODU Digital Commons, which has been accepted for inclusion in Sociology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ODU digital commons.
Abstract: This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Sociology & Criminal Justice at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@odu.edu. Repository Citation DeMichele, Matthew and Payne, Brian K., \"Probation and Parole Officers Speak Out--Caseload and Workload Allocation\" (2007). Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications. Paper 11. http://digitalcommons.odu.edu/sociology_criminaljustice_fac_pubs/11

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the eight-stage model of recommunalizing the homeless in a single room occupancy (SRO) as developed by Arrigo and its theoretical grounding, based on principles derived from c...
Abstract: This article examines the eight-stage model of recommunalizing the homeless in a Single Room Occupancy (SRO) as developed by Arrigo and its theoretical grounding, based on principles derived from c...

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Cites background from "When Prisoners Come Home: Parole an..."

  • ...Thus, efforts to establish reintegration must first come to terms with the debilitating and corrosive practices to which ex-offenders are typically exposed (Maruna, 2001; Petersilia, 2003; Maruna and Immarigeon, 2004)....

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TL;DR: Examining how multiple barriers to reintegration related to employment, housing, childcare, and service needs accumulate to influence physical and mental health three, nine, and 15 months after release of recently incarcerated men indicates that both lower self-rated physical health and increased symptoms of depression are found to increase reIntegration barriers.

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TL;DR: The tracking ideal has been reconfigured in a more genuinely surveillant - electronic - form as discussed by the authors, which has led to the emergence in modern youth justice of two ostensibly divergent practices - mentoring and electronic monitoring.
Abstract: Nowadays, the term ‘tracking’ has only a faint presence in the youth justice field but throughout the 1980s, in England and Wales, it was the focus of a controversy out of all proportion to its incidence. Then, as now, it was used to denote a method of monitoring the whereabouts and time-use of young and young adult offenders. While many youth justice workers ardently defended it, many vigorously condemned it as too intrusive. In practice, its emphasis changed from something primarily surveillant to something primarily supportive, although its tough-sounding name was considered by its advocates to be discursively useful in a law and order culture. Rather paradoxically, the term faded from use in the aftermath of the Home Office’s (1988) Punishment in the Community initiative. Although aspects of the controversy were noted in contemporaneous studies of youth justice (Ely, Swift and Sutherland, 1987; Curtis, 1989, Blagg and Smith, 1989) some of which heightened its surveillant elements in order to critique it (Davies, 1986; Pitts, 1990), it tends to be ignored in more recent accounts (Haines and Drakeford, 1996). Yet tracking left a legacy, contributing to the emergence in modern youth justice of two ostensibly divergent practices - mentoring and electronic monitoring. This paper aims mainly to document a neglected aspect of youth justice history but it also considers the way in which the tracking ideal lives on, and has been reconfigured in a more genuinely surveillant - electronic - form.

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Cites methods from "When Prisoners Come Home: Parole an..."

  • ...Satellite tracking has been used experimentally in the USA – particularly in New Jersey, Texas, Michigan and Florida – since 1997, sometimes with juveniles (Petersilia, 2003)....

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