Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511813580

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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of Contributors
pp ix-x

1 - INTRODUCTION
pp 1-14

2 - FROM CELL TO SOCIETY
pp 15-49

3 - REENTRY AS A TRANSIENT STATE BETWEEN LIBERTY AND RECOMMITMENT
pp 50-79

4 - THE CONTRIBUTION OF EX-PRISONERS TO CRIME RATES
pp 80-104

5 - DOES SUPERVISION MATTER?
pp 105-138

6 - THE IMPACT OF IMPRISONMENT ON THE DESISTANCE PROCESS
pp 139-178

7 - COMMUNITIES AND REENTRY
pp 179-208

8 - WORK AND FAMILY PERSPECTIVES ON REENTRY
pp 209-243

9 - CONSIDERING THE POLICY IMPLICATIONS
pp 244-260

Index
pp 261-264

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