Today's high recidivism rates, combined with the rising costs of jails and prisons, are increasingly seen as problems that must be addressed on both moral and financial grounds. Research on prison and jail reentry typically focuses on barriers stemming from employment, housing, mental health, and substance abuse issues from the perspective of offenders returning to urban areas. This book explores the largely neglected topic of the specific challenges inmates experience when leaving jail and returning to rural areas.
Rural Jail Reentry provides a thorough background and theoretical framework on reentry issues and rural crime patterns, and identifies perceptions of the most significant challenges to jail reentry in rural areas. Utilizing three robust samples-current inmates, probation and parole officers, and treatment staff-Ward examines what each group considers to be the most impactful factors surrounding rural jail re-entry. A springboard for future research and policy discussions, this book will be of interest to international researchers and practitioners interested in the topic of rural reentry, as well as graduate and upper-level undergraduate students concerned with contemporary issues in corrections, community-based corrections, critical issues in criminal justice, and criminal justice policy.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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2 s/w Abbildungen, 2 s/w Zeichnungen, 31 s/w Tabellen
31 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 10 mm
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978-1-138-39391-2 (9781138393912)
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Kyle C. Ward is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Northern Colorado. His research interests include jail and prison reentry, rural crime, policing, and evidence-based crime prevention strategies.
1. Introduction
2. Issues in Reentry
3. Jail Reentry
4. Rural Framework
5. Perceptions of Offender Reentry Challenges
6. Methodology
7. Results
8. Discussion
Appendices
References
Index