RT Article
T1 Criminogenic and Desistance-Promoting Processes Behind Bars and Postrelease Supervision: new Evidence From Federal Offenders
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 66
IS 3
SP 309
OP 336
A1 DeLisi, Matt
A1 Drury, Alan
A1 Elbert, Michael
A2 Drury, Alan
A2 Elbert, Michael
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1690181095
AB Institutional misconduct has criminogenic implications, whereas visitation, work, and educational involvement have desistance implications, but there is considerable heterogeneity in the inmate population and in the effects of institutional experiences and various programming on their immediate and postrelease behavior. Using a near population of offenders on federal supervised release, the current study examined the effects of criminogenic (e.g., misconduct) and desistance-promoting (e.g., work, education, and visitation) factors occurring within prison along with the effects of importation factors (e.g., arrest onset, federal criminal history rank, and demographics) in relation to functioning/compliance on supervised release. Institutional misconduct and specifically drug/alcohol misconduct reduced postrelease functioning/compliance, while the effects for visitation were limited. Prison work and educational experiences had no effect on supervised release outcomes. The most consistent predictor of supervision failure was age of arrest onset and to a lesser extent federal criminal history rank that is supportive of importation and life-course perspectives.
K1 Misconduct
K1 Noncompliance
K1 Supervised release
K1 Reentry
K1 Federal offenders
K1 Prison
DO 10.1177/0011128719847453