Prisoner reentry and the life course : the role of race and drugs

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Author:

O'Connell, Daniel J., 1963-

ISBN:

9781593321529

Personal Author:

O'Connell, Daniel J., 1963-

Publication Information:

New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2006.

Physical Description:

xiii, 168 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Criminal justice: recent scholarship

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Contents:

Life course theory and prisoner reentry -- A brief history of social control -- Sampson and Laub's theory of age graded social control -- Adult social bonds, prison, and the reentry process -- Sample, data, and methods -- Getting out: 12 month follow up analyses -- Staying out: 24 month follow-up analyses -- Structural equation models -- Conclusion.

Subject Term:

Prisoners -- Deinstitutionalization -- United States.

Ex-convicts -- United States -- Longitudinal studies.

Ex-convicts -- Social networks -- United States.

Social control -- United States.

Recidivism -- United States.

Drug abuse and crime -- United States.

Crime and race -- United States.

Criminal behavior, Prediction of -- United States.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0617/2006022513.html

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Summary

OÂConnell asks whether prisoners who establish social bonds in the reentry process fare better than those who do not. His analysis tests whether life course approaches to desistance are applicable to modern, largely minority, heavily drug involved criminal justice populations. By accounting for stable individual traits and testing race in separate models rather than as a variable, OÂConnell shows how reentering offenders with different backgrounds engage in relationships and employment, and how these relations in turn affect drug use and recidivism. Life course approaches may require modification to account for racial differences, and we need to reconsider our definitions of success and to think in terms of harm reduction in approaching criminal justice interventions.