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Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America is intended to shed light on a question that fuels the public's concern about the number of returning prisoners. What are the public safety consequences of the fourfold increase in the number of individuals entering and leaving the nation's prisons each year? Many have speculated about the nexus between prisoner reentry and public safety. Journalistic accounts of the reentry phenomenon have painted a picture of a tidal wave of hardened criminals coming back home to resume their destructive lifestyles. Law enforcement officials have attributed increases in violence in their communities to the influx of returning prisoners. Politicians have recommended policies that keep former prisoners out of high crime neighborhoods in the belief that crime would be reduced. The chapters in this book address these issues and suggest policies that will keep released prisoners from committing new crimes.

Crime --- Criminals --- Ex-convicts --- Imprisonment --- Recidivism --- Rehabilitation --- Offenses, Repeat --- Repeat offenses --- Ex-cons --- Ex-offenders --- Ex-prisoners --- Prisoners --- Recidivists --- Formerly incarcerated persons --- Social Sciences --- Sociology

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Seredycz tracks 434 offenders of a federally funded Access to Recovery (ATR) program coordinated by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and a jurisdiction identified as Lake City. He examines offender's reduction of alcohol and other drug abuse (AODA), recidivism and barriers to reintegration. Self-reported high-risk drug offenders had a higher likelihood of program failure and criminal activity. Offenders who voluntarily remained in treatment were more successful remaining abstinent and more likely to desist from criminal activity. Faith-based programming was not fou

Recidivism --- Criminals --- Ex-convicts --- Drug abuse --- Ex-cons --- Ex-offenders --- Ex-prisoners --- Prisoners --- Recidivists --- Offenses, Repeat --- Repeat offenses --- Crime --- Rehabilitation --- Drug use --- Treatment --- Formerly incarcerated persons

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Convicted offenders need jobs when they leave prison—but few people want to hire them. Spotlighting this thorny issue, Melvin Delgado explores the potential role of business enterprises in providing work to former prisoners and helping them to reconnect with their home communities. Delgado documents the unconventional approaches of nonprofit businesses that deliberately and exclusively hire former inmates. He finds that employers can play a multifaceted role in helping ex-convicts to face life "on the outside": beyond wages, for example, they may offer skill training, mentoring, and social support. As he evaluates the successes and failures reflected in his case studies, he provides a window on the complex interplay of social, economic, and institutional factors that can encourage, or prevent, a successful reentry process.

Ex-convicts --- Criminals --- Prisoners --- Reform of criminals --- Rehabilitation of criminals --- Corrections --- Alternatives to imprisonment --- Ex-cons --- Ex-offenders --- Ex-prisoners --- Recidivists --- Employment --- Rehabilitation. --- Rehabilitation --- Formerly incarcerated persons

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When a woman leaves prison, she enters a world of competing messages and conflicting advice. Staff from prison, friends, family members, workers at halfway houses and treatment programs all have something to say about who she is, who she should be, and what she should do. The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma offers an in-depth, firsthand look at how the former prisoner manages messages about returning to the community. Over the course of a year, Andrea Leverentz conducted repeated interviews with forty-nine women as they adjusted to life outside of prison and worked to construct new ideas of themselves as former prisoners and as mothers, daughters, sisters, romantic partners, friends, students, and workers. Listening to these women, along with their family members, friends, and co-workers, Leverentz pieces together the narratives they have created to explain their past records and guide their future behavior. She traces where these narratives came from and how they were shaped by factors such as gender, race, maternal status, age, and experiences in prison, halfway houses, and twelve-step programs-factors that in turn shaped the women's expectations for themselves, and others' expectations of them. The women's stories form a powerful picture of the complex, complicated human experience behind dry statistics and policy statements regarding prisoner reentry into society for women, how the experience is different for men and the influence society plays. With its unique view of how society's mixed messages play out in ex-prisoners' lived realities, The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma shows the complexity of these women's experiences within the broad context of the war on drugs and mass incarceration in America. It offers invaluable lessons for helping such women successfully rejoin society.

Ex-convicts --- Prisoners --- Criminals --- Women prisoners --- Ex-cons --- Ex-offenders --- Ex-prisoners --- Recidivists --- Convicts --- Correctional institutions --- Imprisoned persons --- Incarcerated persons --- Prison inmates --- Inmates of institutions --- Persons --- Family relationships --- Services for --- Rehabilitation --- Inmates --- Formerly incarcerated persons --- twelve step and desistance messages.

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'Rethinking Corrections' is an edited text that will explore the challenges faced by convicted offenders over the course of rehabilitation and reintegration, and will meet the needs of upper level and graduate students as a primary text in required courses.

Community-based corrections. --- Corrections. --- Criminals --- Ex-convicts. --- Rehabilitation. --- Community corrections --- Community treatment programs --- Corrections in the community --- Ex-cons --- Ex-offenders --- Ex-prisoners --- Correctional services --- Penology --- Prisoners --- Reform of criminals --- Rehabilitation of criminals --- Rehabilitation --- Alternatives to imprisonment --- Recidivists --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Corrections --- Formerly incarcerated persons