Each year, nearly two million women are released from prison or jail. These women experience unique challenges during their reentry — the period of tr...
In the identity theory of desistance, optimism is important to individual transformation. Yet, as the authors of this article assert, unfounded optimi...
This report presents statistics on both pre-prison and post-prison employment and median earnings, differentiated by age, sex, race and ethnicity, mos...
Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration, Linking to Employment Activities Pre-release (LEAP) pilots the creati...
The past several years have seen a surge of interest in using risk assessment in criminal sentencing, both to reduce recidivism and to reduce prison p...
This resource hub from the Justice Research and Statistics Association contains the abstracts of reports produced by state Statistical Analysis Center...
Risk assessment instruments figure prominently in current criminal justice reforms, but their use is controversial. The principal concern is that bene...
