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When Prisoners Come Home

Parole and Prisoner Reentry

By: Joan Petersilia

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When Prisoners Come Home

Parole and Prisoner Reentry

By: Joan Petersilia

Every year, hundreds of thousands of jailed Americans leave prison and return to society. Largely uneducated, unskilled, often without family support, and with the stigma of a prison record hanging over them, many if not most will experience serious social and psychological problems after release. Fewer than one in three prisoners receive substance abuse or mental health treatment while incarcerated, and each year fewer and fewer participate in the dwindling number of vocational or educational pre-release programs, leaving many all but unemployable. Not surprisingly, the great majority is rearrested, most within six months of their release. What happens when all those sent down the river come back up--and out? As long as there have been prisons, society has struggled with how best to help prisoners reintegrate once released. But the current situation is unprecedented. As a result of the quadrupling of the American prison population in the last quarter century, the number of returning offenders dwarfs anything in America's history. What happens when a large percentage of inner-city men, mostly Black and Hispanic, are regularly extracted, imprisoned, and then returned a few years later in worse shape and with dimmer prospects than when they committed the crime resulting in their imprisonment? What toll does this constant "churning" exact on a community? And what do these trends portend for public safety? A crisis looms, and the criminal justice and social welfare system is wholly unprepared to confront it. Drawing on dozens of interviews with inmates, former prisoners, and prison officials, Joan Petersilia convincingly shows us how the current system is failing, and failing badly. Unwilling merely to sound the alarm, Petersilia explores the harsh realities of prisoner reentry and offers specific solutions to prepare inmates for release, reduce recidivism, and restore them to full citizenship, while never losing sight of the demands of public safety. As the number of ex-convicts in America continues to grow, their systemic marginalization threatens the very society their imprisonment was meant to protect. America spent the last decade debating who should go to prison and for how long. Now it's time to decide what to do when prisoners come home.

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When Prisoners Come Home

Parole and Prisoner Reentry

By: Joan Petersilia

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Parole and Prisoner Reentry

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Prisoner Rehabilitation: Success Stories And Failures

By: Joan Esherick

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Prisoner Rehabilitation: Success Stories And Failures

By: Joan Esherick

Russ committed thousands of dollars of damage during a two-hour drunken vandalism spree. He never saw the inside of a jail, yet in the thirty years since his first arrest he remains re-arrest free. He's a rehabilitation success story. Manny stole a car at thirteen years of age, a crime for which he was sentenced to a detention center. That was only the first of what would become dozens of arrests, re-arrests, and convictions in Manny's lifetime. Criminal behavior became his way of life. Russ and Manny represent the best and worst of today's American rehabilitation policies. While a few programs and institutions succeed in helping people with criminal tendencies to turn their lives around, many fail. How are people who commit crimes being successfully rehabilitated? What works? What doesn't? Is there hope for change for someone who finds himself behind bars? The real-life case studies provided in this book offer intriguing answers and observations. They may even raise additional questions. In any case, Prisoner Rehabilitation: Success Stories and Failures provides a balanced perspective of what rehabilitation is and how it can better be accomplished.

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118

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Simon and Schuster

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1681461072

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9781681461076

Crime and Family

Selected Essays of Joan McCord

By: Joan McCord

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Crime and Family

Selected Essays of Joan McCord

By: Joan McCord

Joan McCord (1930-2004) was one of the most famous, most-respected, and best-loved criminologists of her generation. A brilliant pioneer, Dr. McCord was best known for her work on the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, the first large-scale, longitudinal experimental study in the field of criminology. The study was among the first to demonstrate unintended harmful effects of a well-meaning prevention program. Dr. McCord's most important essays from this groundbreaking research project are among those included in this volume.McCord also co-wrote, edited, or co-edited twelve volumes and auth.

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Temple University Press

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1592135587

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Crime Victims with Developmental Disabilities

Report of a Workshop

By: National Research Council,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice

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Crime Victims with Developmental Disabilities

Report of a Workshop

By: National Research Council,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice

Although violent crime in the United States has declined over the past five years, certain groups appear to remain at disproportionately high risk for violent victimization. In the United States, people with developmental disabilities-such as mental retardation, autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and severe learning disabilities may be included in this group. While the scientific evidence is scanty, a handful of studies from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Great Britain consistently find high rates of violence and abuse affecting people with these kinds of disabilities. A number of social and demographic trends are converging that may worsen the situation considerably over the next several years. The prevalence of developmental disabilities has increased in low-income populations, due to a number of factors, such as poor prenatal nutrition, lack of access to health care or better perinatal care for some fragile babies, and increases in child abuse and substance abuse during pregnancy. For example, a recent report of the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities found that during the past decade, while the state population increased by 20 percent, the number of persons with developmental disabilities in California increased by 52 percent and the population segment with mild mental retardation doubled. Because of a growing concern among parents and advocates regarding possible high rates of crime victimization among persons with developmental disabilities, Congress, through the Crime Victims with Disabilities Awareness Act of 1998, requested that the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences conduct a study to increase knowledge and information about crimes against individuals with developmental disabilities that will be useful in developing new strategies to reduce the incidence of crimes against those individuals. Crime Victims with Developmental Disabilities summarizes the workshop and addresses the following issues: (1) the nature and extent of crimes against individuals with developmental disabilities; (2) the risk factors associated with victimization of individuals with developmental disabilities; (3) the manner in which the justice system responds to crimes against individuals with disabilities; and (4) the means by which states may establish and maintain a centralized computer database on the incidence of crimes against individuals with disabilities within a state.

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National Academies Press

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030917127X

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Guideline-based Justice

The Implications for Racial Minorities

By: Joan Petersilia,Susan Turner,National Institute of Corrections (U.S.),Rand Corporation

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Guideline-based Justice

The Implications for Racial Minorities

By: Joan Petersilia,Susan Turner,National Institute of Corrections (U.S.),Rand Corporation

This report continues work reported in an earlier RAND report, Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System, R-2947-NIC, which compared the treatment of white and minority offenders at key decision points, from arrest through release from custody. That report found suggestive evidence of minorities being treated more harshly than white offenders at sentencing. This follow-on study delves deeper into the sentencing process, focusing on the use of classification instruments and formal sentencing and parole guidelines, to assess how they might affect the future sentencing of minority defendants. The study also addresses the issue of recidivism prediction. The authors attempt to predict recidivism using all the factors in the database, and then examine how much predictive accuracy would be lost if they had used only those factors that are not statistically correlated with race. Their findings suggest that the use of guidelines does not overcome racial disparities in sentencing, supervision, and parole decisions. Paradoxically, it may widen them, for reasons that are complex and probably intractable.

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When Prisoners Come Home

When Prisoners Come Home

When Prisoners Come Home

When Prisoners Come Home

Prisoner Rehabilitation: Success Stories And Failures

Prisoner Rehabilitation: Success Stories And Failures

Crime and Family

Crime and Family

Crime Victims with Developmental Disabilities

Crime Victims with Developmental Disabilities

Guideline-based Justice

Guideline-based Justice

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