Recidivism rates are high in the United States. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, within 5 years of being released, 77% of ex-prisoners are arrested, with 37% arrested within the first 6 months and 57% arrested within the first year. Past research has indicated that…
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Helping professionals have a role as service providers when working with African American men with dual diagnosis and incarceration histories. The purpose of this qualitative single case study was to understand how helping professionals provided community-based treatment and est…
The contributors to this book explore the changing role of the Parole Board across the range of its responsibilities, including the prediction of risk and deciding on the release or continued detention of the growing number of recalled prisoners. In doing so it aims to rectify t…
This book is concerned to explore the changing role of the Parole Board across the range of its responsibilities, including the prediction of risk and deciding on the release (or continued detention) of the growing number of recalled prisoners and of those subject to indetermina…
This book addresses questions relating to the release of serious offenders from prison, and the recall of ex-prisoners to prison for reasons other than re-offending. It also explores the changing role of the Parole Board across the range of its responsibilities.
The U.S. prison population has grown to a level that has become concerning for policymakers due to the growing financial burden on taxpayers. If recidivism rates are lowered, the ever-increasing strain on the criminal justice system and the American taxpayer would be reduced. On…
This dissertation contains four essays in housing and immigration economics. The first two chapters are essays on homelessness and homeless housing, and the last two chapters are essays on immigration policy and its impact on the receiving country. In the first chapter I estimat…
Recidivism is costly for both individuals and society as a whole. While there are multiple causes for recidivism, one area that has not been adequately explored is felon disenfranchisement. To expand the scope of this study, recidivism will be measured by using rearrest, reconvi…
High levels of imprisonment in the United States have surpassed historical records, with the United States having the highest per capita incarceration levels in the world. Criminal desistance research has been conducted to create reentry programs and to reduce recidivism. To con…
The education field has long wrestled with how to best handle students who behave badly. Specifically, students who behave in an unsafe manner towards other students present a special conundrum and the traditional response has been to suspend them (Adams, 2000; Black, 2016; Cerr…
The purpose of this systemic review of the literature is to explore the effectiveness of family-focused community-based interventions in reducing recidivism in juvenile offenders. This review examined 16 quantitative studies from the United States, Netherlands, and the United Ki…
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine and address risk factors and/or reasons why probationer-offenders engaged in recidivism acts post imprisonment. This study included a total population sample of 78 AB109 probationers (archival data), who were assessed with certain …
Family functioning is predictive of youth recidivism in Singapore. However, there is a lack of family based interventions for youth offenders on community probation. Evidence-based family interventions developed in Western populations, such as Functional Family Therapy (FFT), ha…
The Affordable Care Act expanded access to Medicaid programs and required them to provide essential health benefits, which can include prevention services. This study assesses the costs and benefits to using Medicaid funding to implement a well-known evidence-based program, Func…
Evictions are endemic in the United States, affecting as many as 1 in 19 tenant households each year (Desmond et al., 2016). This number is expected to increase in 2020, affecting between 9 million and 15 million households and disproportionately hurting minority and low-income …