Offender rehabilitation effectively reduces recidivism for treatment groups compared to
control groups, but there is less evidence demonstrating that intra-individual changes are …

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 …

" The best organized and most comprehensive theory textbook to use for both graduate and
undergraduate students. It provides historical context to the theories, and the authors make it …

Societal reentry from prison presents a wide array of extreme challenges to inmates
attempting to reintegrate with society. This process is significantly more daunting for inmates …

What Works (and Doesn't) in Reducing Recidivism offers criminologists and students an
evidence-based discussion of the latest trends in corrections. Experts Latessa, Johnson, and …

The idea of a reentry court for ex-convicts returning to the community is an important new
idea, but the premise behind it is rather familiar. Most of the models developed for reentry …

Objectives While the economic model of crime suggests that improving post-prison labor
market prospects should reduce recidivism, evaluations of previous employment-oriented re …

The task of preparing prisoners for the challenges they will face outside the prison walls is a
difficult one, made no less so by the pressure many correctional administrators feel to” do …

AT ONE POINT in our history, nobody would have imagined releasing a prison inmate into
society with little supervision or support. As Simon (1993) shows, well into the 1950s, such a …

THE DEBATE ABOUT the costs and benefits of imprisonment is taking place all across the
United States, but the stakes are highest in California. California's 173,000 prisoners …