Evaluating the Long-Term Effects of Prisoner Reentry Services on Recidivism: What Types of Services Matter?

Visher, Christy A.; Lattimore, Pamela K.; Barrick, Kelle; Tueller, Stephen

doi:10.1080/07418825.2015.1115539

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“…Finally, and even though the SVORI program measures were mostly nonsignificant, it is possible that the program may have played a suppressed role in substance abuse and criminal offending. Yet, given that outcomes from follow‐up evaluations demonstrate that SVORI participation has a minor long‐term impact on criminal offending, substance use, and reincarceration (see Lattimore and Visher, ; nonetheless, see Visher, Lattimore, Barrick, and Tueller [] who showed that there may be a longer term SVORI program effect), it is possible that any suppressed effect that the program may have had on our outcomes is modest in magnitude and somewhat short lived.…”

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Building the Ties that Bind, Breaking the Ties that Don't

Boman

Mowen

2017

Criminology & Public Policy

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Research Summary Although family support is an important protective factor against recidivism, less is known about how the domain of family works with other elements of the risk–need–responsivity model. By using the Serious and Violent Offenders Reentry Initiative (SVORI) data, we explore whether family and criminal peers have (a) independent and (b) interdependent effects on substance abuse and crime after release from prison. The outcomes of multilevel models demonstrate that the risk factor of criminal peers is as strong, or stronger, of a predictor of substance abuse and crime as is the protective factor of family support for offenders during reentry. Policy Implications Institution‐based policies aimed primarily at improving family ties for reentering offenders must begin focusing as much on peers as they do on family. These programs should instead focus on improving family ties (thereby increasing a protective factor) while focusing on severing the offender's relationships with criminally inclined friends (thereby decreasing a risk factor).

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Building the Ties that Bind, Breaking the Ties that Don't

Boman

Mowen

2017

Criminology & Public Policy

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“…This measure, length of incarceration, has an overall mean of 370.848 days, a standard deviation of 227.873, and ranges from 20 days to 1362 days. Finally, as the overall goal of SVORI was to examine how enhanced reentry programming and services related to a variety of reentry outcomes (see Visher et al 2017), we include a binary measure capturing SVORI participation. This measure (1 = SVORI program participant, 0 = non-SVORI program participant) has an overall mean of .451 and a standard deviation of .498.…”

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A Developmental Perspective on Reentry: Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Family Conflict and Peer Delinquency during Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

Mowen

Boman

2017

J Youth Adolescence

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Despite the uniqueness of an incarceration experience for adolescents, there remains a shortage of research on adolescents and emerging adults who have been recently released from detention centers and are returning home during the transitional time period of "reentry". Drawing from the developmental literature, the current study uses a diverse (54% Black, 20% White, 26% Other Race) longitudinal survey of 337 male adolescents living in the United States to examine the interrelationships among crime, substance use, family conflict, and peer delinquency. A series of cross-lagged dynamic panel data models using four waves of data demonstrate that while family conflict and peer delinquency relate to increased offending and substance use, conflict in the family is a major driving force behind both future family conflict and peer delinquency. Overall, findings suggest that family conflict is an overlooked, but absolutely critical, factor in explaining deviance and deviant peer associations alike for adolescents and emerging adults who have been recently incarcerated and released.

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“…But this knowledge coexists alongside findings that one of two people released from US prisons are reincarcerated within three years (Durose, Cooper and Snyder ), that gold‐standard programming to reduce recidivism struggles at scale (Parsons, Weiss and Wei ; Visher et al . ), and that Second Chance Act programmes fall short of creating second opportunities (D'Amico, Geckeler and Kim ). Some scholars have made the uneasy conclusion that prison may increase future criminal behaviour (Cullen, Jonson and Nagin ), and many others have grappled with the uncomfortable reality that the imprisonment of individuals affects families, children, and communities (Clear ; Wakefield and Wildeman ; Western ).…”

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Time Well Spent: Misery, Meaning, and the Opportunity of Incarceration

Wright

2020

Howard J Crime Justice

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People often leave prison worse than when they arrived; sometimes, they leave the same. People could leave prison better than when they arrived through a reimagined response to crime. They could be set up to live sustainable, fulfilling, and meaningful lives after prison. This approach could be informed by research on what makes for a meaningful life – regardless of whether a person has come into contact with the criminal justice system. A reimagined corrections could view time spent in prison as an opportunity rather than solely as a punishment; an opportunity to repair harm, empower people, and promote public safety.

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Evaluating the Long-Term Effects of Prisoner Reentry Services on Recidivism: What Types of Services Matter?

Cited by 85 publications

References 30 publications

Building the Ties that Bind, Breaking the Ties that Don't

Building the Ties that Bind, Breaking the Ties that Don't

A Developmental Perspective on Reentry: Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Family Conflict and Peer Delinquency during Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

Time Well Spent: Misery, Meaning, and the Opportunity of Incarceration

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