RT Article
T1 Moving Home: examining the Independent Effects of Individual- and Neighborhood-Level Residential Mobility on Recidivism in High-Risk Parolees
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 62
IS 10
SP 2982
OP 3005
A1 Breetzke, Gregory
A2 Polaschek, Devon
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/158836996X
AB A number of studies have shown that the residential mobility of an offender postrelease can significantly influence recidivism. Research has also shown how the mobility of neighborhoods into which offenders are released is an important contextual factor that predicts recidivism. Within the social disorganization framework, this study combines these lines of research by examining the effect of both individual- and neighborhood-level residential mobility on recidivism for a cohort of high-risk prisoners released on parole in New Zealand. Using multilevel analysis techniques, we found that neither immediate individual-level residential mobility nor neighborhood-level mobility was associated with recidivism after controlling for various multilevel predictors. A number of individual- and neighborhood-level variables were predictive of recidivism, including the number of parole conditions placed on the released offender, and the percent foreign born in their neighborhood. These results are discussed within the context of an increasingly eclectic and diverse country.
K1 Recidivism
K1 Residential mobility
K1 Neighborhood effects
K1 New Zealand
K1 Multilevel model
K1 Rückfälligkeit
DO 10.1177/0306624X17735985