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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: There is a growing U.S. national consensus that with proper attention to the policies that drive the size of prison populations, these populations can be reduced as discussed by the authors, and several states have reduced pri...
Abstract: There is a growing U.S. national consensus that with proper attention to the policies that drive the size of prison populations, these populations can be reduced. As several states have reduced pri...
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Cites background from "When Prisoners Come Home: Parole an..."
...Numerous studies have examined the nexus between parole release, conditions of that release, and the impact on parolees’ rearrest rates (for reviews of this material, see Petersilia, 2003; Travis, 2005)....
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TL;DR: Parole revocation has become a prominent role in the new realities of incarceration and prisoner reentry as discussed by the authors. But it has been shown that the number of people being sent back to prison for violating their parole supervision has increased significantly over the last few decades.
Abstract: ing people back to prison for violations of the terms of their parole supervision has grown significantly over recent years and now occupies a prominent role in the new realities of incarceration and prisoner reentry (Travis and Christiansen 2006; Travis 2005; Travis and Lawrence, 2002a). In 1980, approximately 27,000 people were sent to back to prison for violating the terms of their parole. By 2000, that number had grown to over 200,000. America now sends more people to prison for parole violations than were sent to prison in 1980 for any reason, including commitments on new convictions and parole violations. The growth in back-end sentencing has far outstripped the overall growth in incarceration in America. The per capita rate of incarceration increased slightly more than fourfold between 1973 and 2000; over the same period of time, the growth in incarcerations for parole violations grew sevenfold. Another perspective on back-end sentencing illustrates the impact of the robust practice of parole revocation on America's prisons. In 1980, 18 percent of all prison admissions were individuals who were being returned on parole violations; by 2000, that number had increased to 34 percent. The new reality that one in three people coming in the front door of our prisons had relatively recently left through the back door underscores the importance of the efforts now under way to rethink the efficacy and purposes of parole supervision (Petersilia, 2003).
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Cites background from "When Prisoners Come Home: Parole an..."
...…coming in the front door of our prisons had relatively recently left through the back door underscores the importance of the efforts now under way to rethink the efficacy and purposes of parole supervision (Petersilia, 2003). social research Vol 74 : No 2 : Summer 2007 631 632 social research...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared 15-year recidivism and incarceration outcomes for individuals randomly assigned to Baltimore City's Drug Treatment Court (BCDTC) or traditional adjudication.
Abstract: This study compares 15-year recidivism and incarceration outcomes for individuals randomly assigned to Baltimore City’s Drug Treatment Court (BCDTC) or traditional adjudication. Additionally, the study examines the moderating effect of court of assignment. This study is based on a randomized controlled trial. Participants include 235 drug-involved offenders with substantial criminal and substance use disorder histories who were adjudicated within Baltimore City’s District and Circuit Courts. Key measures include number of arrests; convictions; person, property, drug, and violation of probation (VOP) charges; and days of incarceration. A measure of exposure time is included to account for time spent free in the community. Negative binomial regression and growth curve models test for group differences on each dependent variable over the 15-year follow-up. Additional models assess whether or not originating court moderates the treatment effect. Participation in BCDTC resulted in significantly fewer arrests, charges, and convictions across the 15-year follow-up period, including several crime-specific differences. Originating court moderated the effect of participation for convictions, such that treatment participants in the Circuit drug court had significantly better outcomes than those in the District drug court relative to their controls. Participation in BCDTC did not have a significant effect on total days of sentenced incarceration. Results suggest that drug courts have the potential to lead to sustained, long term effects on criminal offending for individuals with significant criminal history records and chronic substance use histories.
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Dissertation•
01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: From Dennis-the-Menace to Billy the Kid: The Evolving Social Construction of Juvenile Offenders in the United States From 1899-2007 by Ashley Lauren Taylor Department of Sociology Duke University as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: From Dennis-the-Menace to Billy-the-Kid: The Evolving Social Construction of Juvenile Offenders in the United States From 1899-2007 by Ashley Lauren Taylor Department of Sociology Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Suzanne Shanahan, co-Supervisor ___________________________ Kenneth C. Land, co-Supervisor ___________________________ Linda Burton ___________________________ Edward A. Tiryakian ___________________________ George W. Wilson An abstract of a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Sociology in the Graduate School of Duke University 2010 Copyright by Ashley Lauren Taylor 2010
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TL;DR: In this paper, the embodied experience of reentry in a halfway house and interviews with former prisoners is studied. But the authors treat prison release as a s... and do not consider the psychological aspects of re-entry.
Abstract: This paper draws on nine months of ethnographic research living in a halfway house and interviews with former prisoners to theorize the embodied experience of reentry. I treat prison release as a s...
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