RT Article
T1 Evaluation of a Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) Program in a Midwest State
JF Criminal justice policy review
VO 28
IS 3
SP 238
OP 254
A1 Veeh, Christopher A.
A2 Lee, Jaehoon
A2 Severson, Margaret E.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1725465817
AB The Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) paved the way for a new era of rehabilitation in corrections’ programming. However, published outcome evaluations of SVORI programs and their progeny are limited in number. The current article presents the multiyear outcome evaluation of one prisoner reentry initiative established in a Midwestern state, which was developed within the framework of the SVORI program model. A comparison group was identified using propensity score matching to evaluate program effectiveness on the recidivism outcomes of returns to prison and new convictions. Cox proportional hazards modeling found program participants to have significantly lower hazard to incur a new conviction than the comparison group but no difference in the hazard for reincarceration. The implications of these mixed findings in recidivism outcomes are discussed for the reentry program initiative.
K1 Prison
K1 Reentry
K1 Program evaluation
K1 SVORI
DO 10.1177/0887403415575144