Prisoner Reentry Programs: Penetrating The Black Box For Better Theory And Practice (criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship)

"Upon release from prison, individuals must manage a complex mix of interrelated challenges. Housing, employment, and substance abuse treatment have been identified as three of the most pressing dimensions of prisoner reentry. Grommon explores how these challenges interact and affect levels of relapse and recidivism. Housing and employment are important antecedents that shape participation in substance abuse treatment and relapse. In turn, these initial effects directly or indirectly influence recidivism. The findings highlight the need to further explore reentry challenges and lead to a number of theoretical, methodological, and policy implications."--Résumé de l'éditeur Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 Chapter 1: The Development of Reentry Knowledge 10 Chapter 2: Contextualizing Reentry from Theory to Practice 22 Chapter 3: Methodology of the Study 82 Chapter 4: Study Results and Findings 94 Chapter 5: Conclusions and Recommendations for the Future 144 Notes 166 Appendix 1: Contextual Information on Broader Program Evaluation 182 Appendix 2: Sensitivity Verification of Treatment Dosage and Processes Multivariate Regression Models 186 Appendix 3: Sensitivity Verification of Relapse and Recidivism Multivariate Regression Models 194 Appendix 4: Sensitivity Verification of Relapse and Recidivism Multivariate Regression Models Controlling for Treatment Dosage and Processes 200 Appendix 5: Sobel Test (1986) of Indirect Effects 206 Appendix 6: Alternative Modeling of Interaction Terms for Housing Stability and Employment Stability 210 References 216 Index 240 "Upon release from prison, individuals must manage a complex mix of interrelated challenges. Housing, employment, and substance abuse treatment have been identified as three of the most pressing dimensions of prisoner reentry. Grommon explores how these challenges interact and affect levels of relapse and recidivism. Housing and employment are important antecedents that shape participation in substance abuse treatment and relapse. In turn, these initial effects directly or indirectly influence recidivism. The findings highlight the need to further explore reentry challenges and lead to a number of theoretical, methodological, and policy implications."--Résumé de l'éditeur "Upon release from prison, individuals must manage a complex mix of interrelated challenges. Housing, employment, and substance abuse treatment have been identified as three of the most pressing dimensions of prisoner reentry. Grommon explores how these challenges interact and affect levels of relapse and recidivism. Housing and employment are important antecedents that shape participation in substance abuse treatment and relapse. In turn, these initial effects directly or indirectly influence recidivism. The findings highlight the need to further explore reentry challenges and lead to a number of theoretical, methodological, and policy implications."--Publisher's website