Reentry

Drawing on interviews and focus groups with 27 Iowa correctional staff and parole board members, this study examined how practitioners assess release readiness, interpret available information, and navigate institutional and structural constraints throughout the release decision-making process.

Using a practice-oriented case study of a research-practitioner partnership within the Never Give Up Transitional Living program, this study examines how evaluation readiness developed over approximately 2.5 years before formal evaluation began.

Employment theoretically serves as a source of informal social control that can promote desistance from crime (Sampson & Laub, 1993).

Reentry experiences for the 600,000 people released annually from federal and state prisons differ vastly. We contend that gangs, which rose to prominence alongside mass incarceration, are an overlooked source of variation in reentry experiences.