Carbon Capture, Employment, and Coming Home from Prison

Boman, John H.; Smith, Adam; Saxe, Jennie Perey; Righetti, Tara Kathleen; Rony, Asif Hasan; Fan, Maohong; Mowen, Thomas J.

doi:10.1080/01639625.2020.1783160

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“…Employers with these types of jobs frequently provide gainful employment to formerly incarcerated persons (Flatt and Jacobs 2018;Lichtenberger 2006), provide higher wages than food service and retail (Schnepel 2016), and are part of a career ladder (Interstate Renewable Energy Council 2019; U.S. Department of Energy n.d.). Formerly incarcerated persons are already employed as welders, construction workers, in the steel industry, and in agriculture; renewable energy projects rely on these industries and skillsets (Boman et al 2020). Construction and maintenance, in particular, have been relatively stable employers of ex-felons over time.…”

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Green reentry: criminal justice reform for a just energy transition

2021

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Efforts to reform the USA's criminal justice system and to slow the effects of a changing climate are often deliberated, but rarely connected. Current legislative action to reduce recidivism-via the First Step Act of 2018-and a landmark proposal to reduce carbon emissions-the Green New Deal-dominate headlines and debate. Community engagement is a critical factor in ensuring these programs address distributive inequities and promote human well-being. In this paper, the authors propose a synergistic potential of strategic action on these two societal issues. An analysis and synthesis of the literature shows that vocational correctional programs in renewable energy emerge as a means to both reduce recidivism and set a path to a low-carbon future. We offer detailson successful policies and programs supporting criminal justice reform and climate action and conclude by offering specific recommendations for legislation, hiring practices, and outreach.

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Green reentry: criminal justice reform for a just energy transition

2021

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“…However, health insurance also provides a means of supplying people with prescription opioid pills. In addition, while some life-course and reentry scholars speculate that employment is protective against offending and/or reoffending (e.g., Sampson & Laub, 1993), other scholars argue that employment may be a potential risk factor for offending (e.g., Staff & Uggen, 2003) or that the relationship is dependent on other factors such as prosocial coworkers or age (Boman et al, 2020;Uggen, 2000;Uggen & Staff, 2001;Wright & Cullen, 2004). While we do not know how health insurance, employment, and opioid pill prescription rates will interplay with theft, the current work poses the argument that the relationship between opioid pills and offending cannot be adequately examined without at least acknowledging and statistically capturing how each of these variables may independently and interdependently relate to theft behaviors.…”

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Theft, Opioid Pills, Unemployment, and Insurance: A Longitudinal Analysis of American Counties in the Wake of the Opioids Crisis

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This study examines the relationships between prescription opioid pills, unemployment, health insurance, and theft. Covering the years 2006–2012, our data are an aggregate of information from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Incident-Based Reporting System, and the American Community Survey (ACS). The unit of analysis is time nested within counties. Preliminary results demonstrate that there were approximately 46 prescription opioid pills distributed per person annually in the United States between 2006 and 2012. Multivariate results reveal that counties with higher numbers of prescription opioid pills tend to experience significantly higher patterns of theft. Interestingly, health insurance is positively associated with theft while unemployment appears to protect against theft. The relationship between pills and theft is also conditioned by both unemployment and health insurance. Future research should explore these relationships to better inform efforts at making responsible social policy in the midst of the opioids crisis.

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Low-carbon city pilots and site selection for migrant employment: Evidence from China

Chen,

Wei

2024

Energy Economics

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Carbon Capture, Employment, and Coming Home from Prison

Cited by 4 publications

References 39 publications

Green reentry: criminal justice reform for a just energy transition

Green reentry: criminal justice reform for a just energy transition

Theft, Opioid Pills, Unemployment, and Insurance: A Longitudinal Analysis of American Counties in the Wake of the Opioids Crisis

Low-carbon city pilots and site selection for migrant employment: Evidence from China

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