Rural Jail Reentry

Offender Needs and Challenges
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-20422-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Reihe: Innovations in Corrections

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Kyle C

Ward, Kyle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.