Author: Peter FinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community service (Punishment)
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Successful Job Placement for Ex-offenders
Author: Peter FinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community service (Punishment)
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Successful Job Placement for Ex-offenders: the Center for Employment Opportunities
Author: Successful Job Placement for Ex-offenders
Author: Peter FinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community service (Punishment)
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Jails to Jobs
Author: Mark DrevnoPublisher: Jails to Jobs, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780991219704
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A step-by-step approach written specifically for ex-offenders that will take you through the process of finding a job. We offer tips and techniques to help you be more effective and give you the encouragement you need to reach your final goal -- a job that is a good fit for you and the employer.
Best Jobs for Ex-Offenders
Author: Ronald L. KrannichPublisher:
ISBN: 9781570233609
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Profiles 101 job opportunities for ex-offenders who are uncertain what they want to do, can do, and will do in the future. Includes 13 categories of occupations, from construction, maintenance, and production to transportation, hospitality, and sales. Examines each in terms of employment outlook, nature of work, working conditions, education requirements, and expected earnings. Includes summary charts of best jobs and chapters on transitional employment, job restrictions on ex-offenders, and barriers to employment.
Job Placement and Training for Offenders and Ex-offenders
Author: Phyllis Groom McCrearyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Integrating Substance Abuse Treatment and Vocational Services
Author: Nancy K. YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Employment Services for Ex-offenders
Author: Tips for Finding the Right Job
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Applications for positions
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Barriers to Reentry?
Author: Shawn D. BushwayPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 161044101X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
With the introduction of more aggressive policing, prosecution, and sentencing since the late 1970s, the number of Americans in prison has increased dramatically. While many have credited these "get tough" policies with lowering violent crime rates, we are only just beginning to understand the broader costs of mass incarceration. In Barriers to Reentry? experts on labor markets and the criminal justice system investigate how imprisonment affects ex-offenders' employment prospects, and how the challenge of finding work after prison affects the likelihood that they will break the law again and return to prison. The authors examine the intersection of imprisonment and employment from many vantage points, including employer surveys, interviews with former prisoners, and state data on prison employment programs and post-incarceration employment rates. Ex-prisoners face many obstacles to re-entering the job market—from employers' fears of negligent hiring lawsuits to the lost opportunities for acquiring work experience while incarcerated. In a study of former prisoners, Becky Pettit and Christopher Lyons find that employment among this group was actually higher immediately after their release than before they were incarcerated, but that over time their employment rate dropped to their pre-imprisonment levels. Exploring the demand side of the equation, Harry Holzer, Steven Raphael, and Michael Stoll report on their survey of employers in Los Angeles about the hiring of former criminals, in which they find strong evidence of pervasive hiring discrimination against ex-prisoners. Devah Pager finds similar evidence of employer discrimination in an experiment in which Milwaukee employers were presented with applications for otherwise comparable jobseekers, some of whom had criminal records and some of whom did not. Such findings are particularly troubling in light of research by Steven Raphael and David Weiman which shows that ex-criminals are more likely to violate parole if they are unemployed. In a concluding chapter, Bruce Western warns that prison is becoming the norm for too many inner-city minority males; by preventing access to the labor market, mass incarceration is exacerbating inequality. Western argues that, ultimately, the most successful policies are those that keep young men out of prison in the first place. Promoting social justice and reducing recidivism both demand greater efforts to reintegrate former prisoners into the workforce. Barriers to Reentry? cogently underscores one of the major social costs of incarceration, and builds a compelling case for rethinking the way our country rehabilitates criminals.