Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 FROM CELL TO SOCIETY
- 3 REENTRY AS A TRANSIENT STATE BETWEEN LIBERTY AND RECOMMITMENT
- 4 THE CONTRIBUTION OF EX-PRISONERS TO CRIME RATES
- 5 DOES SUPERVISION MATTER?
- 6 THE IMPACT OF IMPRISONMENT ON THE DESISTANCE PROCESS
- 7 COMMUNITIES AND REENTRY
- 8 WORK AND FAMILY PERSPECTIVES ON REENTRY
- 9 CONSIDERING THE POLICY IMPLICATIONS
- Index
9 - CONSIDERING THE POLICY IMPLICATIONS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 FROM CELL TO SOCIETY
- 3 REENTRY AS A TRANSIENT STATE BETWEEN LIBERTY AND RECOMMITMENT
- 4 THE CONTRIBUTION OF EX-PRISONERS TO CRIME RATES
- 5 DOES SUPERVISION MATTER?
- 6 THE IMPACT OF IMPRISONMENT ON THE DESISTANCE PROCESS
- 7 COMMUNITIES AND REENTRY
- 8 WORK AND FAMILY PERSPECTIVES ON REENTRY
- 9 CONSIDERING THE POLICY IMPLICATIONS
- Index
Summary
Introduction
This book was initiated during a time when the American public, policymakers at all levels of government, and researchers in a number of disciplines were focused on the issue of prisoner reentry. This heightened interest in the causes and consequences of the annual flow of individuals leaving the nation's prisons was certainly overdue. The cycle of arrest, removal, incarceration, and return of large numbers of people, mostly men, who are disproportionately drawn from minority urban communities, constitutes one of the most profound social developments in modern America. Anyone interested in the well-being of these communities surely benefits from an understanding of the impact of America's expanded reliance on imprisonment as a response to crime.
Yet, although understandable, the new interest in prisoner reentry is somewhat perplexing. What, after all, is new? The fourfold increase in the rate of incarceration in America since the early 1970s has been the topic of considerable public and academic discussion. The fact that, with few exceptions, most prisoners are released to return home is well known. The phenomenon of prisoner reentry is not a sudden development – on the contrary, the size of the annual reentry cohort has been growing steadily since the early 1970s. But, for some reason, the national discussion of crime and punishment over the past three decades has not paid sufficient attention to the formidable consequences of the unprecedented growth in incarceration.
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- Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America , pp. 244 - 260Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005
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