Gendered Pathways to Recidivism: Differential Effects of Family Support by Gender

Taylor, Caitlin J.

doi:10.1080/08974454.2014.989305

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“…Instrumental family support did not significantly relate to offending between individuals. Another study published by Taylor (2015a) using the same data and measures found that emotional support was more strongly associated with desistance for females than males. Finally, using a sample of 255 returning individuals, Barrick, Lattimore, and Visher (2014) used identical questions as Taylor (2016) to examine how family emotional support and instrumental support related to reincarceration.…”

Section: Empirical Research On Family Support and Reentrymentioning

confidence: 78%

“…Despite Taylor’s (2015a, 2016) and Barrick et al’s (2014) important findings, two important questions remain unanswered. First, as each of these studies used the same data and identical measures, the factor structure among these items may demonstrate that family support is comprised of more than two factors.…”

Section: Empirical Research On Family Support and Reentrymentioning

confidence: 97%

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Family Matters: Moving Beyond “If” Family Support Matters to “Why” Family Support Matters during Reentry from Prison

Mowen

Stansfield

Boman

2018

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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Objectives: Informed by social control and differential coercion and social support theories, we examine how multiple theoretically and methodologically distinct factors of family support relate to reincarceration, substance use, and criminal offending during prison reentry. Method: Using four waves of data from the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative, we identified three separate factors of family support—interactional (e.g., providing guidance and support), instrumental (e.g., providing housing and transportation), and emotional (e.g., providing love and belongingness). A series of mixed-effects models examined how each form of family support related to reincarceration, substance use, and criminal offending. Results: Findings demonstrated that instrumental, but not interactional or emotional, support related to significantly lower odds of reincarceration and lower levels of substance use and criminal offending. Interaction terms revealed that the effect of instrumental family support is almost entirely independent, and not interactive, on each outcome. Conclusions: Family support appears to relate to prosocial reentry outcomes not because of emotional or interactional bonds, but because families provide for the basic needs of returning individuals. Instrumental familial support mechanisms such as providing housing and financial support appear more salient in promoting prosocial reentry outcomes than mechanisms of emotional or interactional support.

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Section: Empirical Research On Family Support and Reentrymentioning

confidence: 78%

Section: Empirical Research On Family Support and Reentrymentioning

confidence: 97%

Family Matters: Moving Beyond “If” Family Support Matters to “Why” Family Support Matters during Reentry from Prison

Mowen

Stansfield

Boman

2018

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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“…This finding further blurs the relationship between marriage and recidivism. Taylor (2015) views "propensity to marry" as a series of factors pertaining to educational expectations, work experiences, relationship perceptions, etc. which cast the variable in light of the desirable/undesirable aspects one might find in a female partner.…”

Section: Community Ties and Relationship Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, other research shows results are mixed. Most importantly, very little previous research has examined whether protective factor correlates are gendered in their impact on reoffending (see Bates and Mears, 2008;Makarios et al, 2010;Olson et al, 2016;Taylor, 2015;Tietjen et al, 2018) or represent support for an importation or deprivation model of prison. This study assesses the correlates of protective factors education, community ties and relationship status (importation), and protective factor programming (deprivation) on reoffending by gender.…”

Section: Community Ties and Relationship Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender and Prison Recidivism: The Influence of Protective and Risk Factor

Bell¹,

Mathers²,

Lindekugel³

2020

JPLC

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Recidivism after incarceration is a fundamental concern for the criminal justice system. Although men remain the largest percentage of the prison population, women are entering prison at an increasing frequency. Insufficient research has looked at the influence of prison protective and risk factors on recidivism by gender or any theoretical model to consider this increase in the female prison population. Using data from a large western state in the USA, all male and female inmates incarcerated from 2009 through 2011 are evaluated in terms of protective (education, programming, community ties, relationship status) and risk factors (race/ethnicity, age, homelessness, prison conduct, gang membership, prison sentence length and type) associated with their initial incarceration or recidivism. The findings and implications are subsequently discussed.

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“…More has been revealed about the experiences of contemporary female offenders who are also mothers or primary caregivers to children [12,77,78,112], and some of these studies have also explored the moderating effect that age imposes upon motherhood and desistance. To begin, it is important to note that nearly two thirds of women serving sentences in state prisons had children before they committed the offense for which they are now serving time [46,115,121].…”

Section: Review Of Empirical Literature On Age and Women's Desistancementioning

confidence: 99%

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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Gendered Pathways to Recidivism: Differential Effects of Family Support by Gender

Cited by 22 publications

References 26 publications

Family Matters: Moving Beyond “If” Family Support Matters to “Why” Family Support Matters during Reentry from Prison

Family Matters: Moving Beyond “If” Family Support Matters to “Why” Family Support Matters during Reentry from Prison

Gender and Prison Recidivism: The Influence of Protective and Risk Factor

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

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