Author: Peter FinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community service (Punishment)
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Texas' Project RIO
Author: Peter FinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community service (Punishment)
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Texas' Project RIO (reintegration If Offenders).
Author: Training Offenders for Life and Work
Author: John Marcus WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Texas' Project RIO
Author: Peter FinnProgram Focus, Texas' Project RIO (Re-Integration of Offenders), June 1998
Author: National Institute of Justice (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
After Prison
Author: L. M. MuntinghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ex-convicts
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Texas' Project RIO
Author: Peter FinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community service (Punishment)
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Offender Reentry
Author: Matthew S CrowPublisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN: 1449686036
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
An Innovative New Text That Addresses a Critical Issue Nearly 2,000 people are released from prison every day in the United States, many of whom face significant barriers to re-entry into the civilian population. Within three years, two-thirds of them will be rearrested, and nearly half will return to prison for a new crime or parole violation. Offender Reentry: Rethinking Criminology and Criminal Justice is the first text of its kind to address this major issue in criminology and criminal justice. Bringing together cutting-edge and never-before-published research, and authored by the most critically recognized experts in the field, this text offers students extraordinary insight into the experiences of both offenders in reentry and the practitioners who work within the legal system. Real-world stories from criminal justice professionals and offenders themselves are integrated with up-to-the minute research and thought-provoking analysis. Student-oriented pedagogical features, including critical-thinking and discussion questions for every chapter, push students to engage deeply with the text and synthesize their own innovative solutions to contemporary problems. The text addresses all of the societal factors that affect offender reentry, as well as the political and economic effects on the community and issues of public safety. Ideally suited for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal justice and criminology, Offender Reentry is an invaluable new addition to the field.
Integrating Substance Abuse Treatment and Vocational Services
Author: Nancy K. YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
When Prisoners Come Home
Author: Joan PetersiliaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199888949
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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.