This paper explores the determinants of post-prison employment among a sample of ex-offenders released from Maryland prisons. A reduced-form equation for average weekly hours worked in the first year after release was estimated for blacks and whites. The following results emerge. Background variables have strong effects on employment. In particular, race has a consistently strong impact on labo...

A number of claims have been made regarding the importance of prisoners staying in touch with their family through prison visits. Firstly from a humanitarian perspective of enabling family members to see each other, but also regarding the impact of maintaining family ties for successful rehabilitation, reintegration into society and reduced re-offending. This growing evidence base has resulted ...

and demolition were imprinted by discourses of masculinity, the analysis is also somewhat uncomfortable. To identify the gendered elements of prison officer culture, management styles and of violent transgression is certainly important, but the sections in which Carrabine does so feel a little ‘tacked-on’. The book is also somewhat concept-heavy. It is always refreshing to see a criminologist d...

prison life experience is different despites individual differences, family, social and criminal prisoners, conditions and characteristics of them. this study was qualitative research findings from in-depth interviews with 20 women after releasing from prison. the prison puts women in a particular subject and very serious consequences for their marks. the vast majority of women are considered t...

We tested the effects of various policy rules on retailer behavior in laboratory experiments conducted at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Our experimental designmodels themultifaceted contemporary market for consumer computer products and is quite complex, but we found that participants can make effective decisions and that their behavior is sensitive to variations in policies. Based on our resul...

OBJECTIVES This study examined a cohort of 7,046 men who were released from the Pennsylvania State prison system between 1999 and 2002 to Philadelphia County to assess the relationships between receipt of mental health services in prison and prison exit. METHODS Administrative data on prison stays for 7,046 men released from Pennsylvania prisons to Philadelphia locations were analyzed. RESU...

As a major aim of incarceration is to reduce crime, it is important to understand the extent to which it does so. Isolating the effect of prison on crime can be difficult because of reverse causation: higher crime rates also tend to lead to larger prison populations. This paper utilizes state legislated reductions in the prison population to address this question. These policy changes were adop...

Despite data indicating that child maltreatment (CM) in various forms is associated with adult sexual victimization among community women, few studies have explicitly explored how types of CM might relate to prison sexual victimization. Because little is known about how CM might give rise to prison sexual victimization, the present study also examined emotion dysregulation emanating from early ...