Exoffender Accounts of Successful Reentry from Prison

Hlavka, Heather R.; Wheelock, Darren; Jones, Richard S.

doi:10.1080/10509674.2015.1057630

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“…The findings from Breese and colleagues' (2000) study, as well as from others (e.g., Grieb et al, 2014;Hlavka, Wheelock, and Jones, 2015), demonstrate that the seemingly separate domains of family and peers in the RNR model may in fact have a "give-andtake" relationship. In the cases of both previously described offenders, the protective factor of family support and the risk factor of criminal peers share a negative, reciprocal relationship that exerted a substantive impact on their reentry failures.…”

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“…Hypothesis 1: As two distinct elements of the RNR model, both family support and criminal peers should have significant, independent effects on substance use and crime. Hypothesis 2: The effect of family support on substance use and crime will be conditioned by the amount of crime in which one's peers are involved (e.g., see Grieb et al, 2014;Hlavka et al, 2015).…”

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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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“…As ITD predicts that exclusive resource devotion to employment and/or substance abuse programming will be largely wasted on individuals who have not yet reached the point where they have decided to adopt a new identity, the idea of cognitively preparing female offenders to make good use of conventional opportunities is an integral component of successful rehabilitation programming [5,57,59,117]. Despite some of the positive developments shared by women who were released from the baseline incarceration at an older age, we are not advocating for longer prison sentences for drug-involved women.…”

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The Effects of Age at Prison Release on Women’s Desistance Trajectories: a Mixed-Method Analysis

Kerrison

Bachman

Paternoster

2016

J Dev Life Course Criminology

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to measure the effect that age has on women's gendered prisoner reentry experiences and the likelihood of desisting from crime and substance abuse. This study also seeks to evaluate the applicability of Paternoster and Bushway's (2009) Identity Theory of Desistance (ITD) for a contemporary, all-female sample. Methods This mixed-method study makes use of official arrest data for 218 women leaving Delaware prisons in the mid 1990s, to create group-based offending trajectory models. A representative subsample of 118 women was interviewed between 2009 and 2011 and asked to conceptualize the mechanisms that led to their desistance or persistence in offending. Results Multinomial logistic regression analyses reveal that for some of the sample, age at the time of release from prison has a positive effect on the likelihood that women will belong to a desisting trajectory group rather than the most deviant reference group. Interview narratives demonstrate that in navigating the post-incarceration gendered experiences of securing employment, family reunification, and substance abuse recovery, maturity, clarity about one's personal responsibility for linked failures, and a desire to transform one's identity were significant factors that preceded the capacity to excel in those reentry domains. Conclusions These findings lend support for the applicability of ITD for women's desistance experiences. As older women appear to express a reentry goal orientation that diverges from that of their younger counterparts, gender-responsive rehabilitation J Dev Life Course Criminology (2016) agendas must also include programming that increases the likelihood that participants will connect failures sooner so that the prosocial benefits of a healthy identity change can be enjoyed for longer.

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“…Young men, Hispanic men, older men, and men diagnosed with mental illness shared a common need to be connected in positive ways to their families (Hlavka et al, ). Moreover, for each of the four groups, receiving structural support was seen as indispensable to successful reentry.…”

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“…The United States is currently experiencing a major resurgence of interest in the successful reentry into society of individuals who have been incarcerated for drug‐related offenses (Cox, Lenz, & James, ; Hlavka, Wheelock, & Jones, ). This resurgence is generated by the human (Arditti & Parkman, ; Hlavka et al, ; Rajah, Kramer, & Sung, ) and financial (Kyckelhahn, ) costs associated with the staggering incidence of incarceration and recidivism. Prior to the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, there were 330,000 total federal and state inmates in the United States (Lynch & Sabol, ).…”

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Reentry Needs: Men Who Are Young, Hispanic, Older, or With Mental Illness

Dobmeier

Korni

Johnson³

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Adultspan Journal

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Perceptions of the needs for successful reentry among incarcerated men from diverse backgrounds were investigated using phenomenological qualitative methods. Twenty-nine men serving time in a northeastern U.S. correctional facility, which concentrated on treatment of substance use, participated in four focus groups. Young men found it most important to make personal changes, Hispanic men to maintain personal identity, older men to receive structural support, and men with mental illness to connect with family.

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Exoffender Accounts of Successful Reentry from Prison

Cited by 40 publications

References 45 publications

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

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

The Effects of Age at Prison Release on Women’s Desistance Trajectories: a Mixed-Method Analysis

Reentry Needs: Men Who Are Young, Hispanic, Older, or With Mental Illness

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