RT Article
T1 Peer-Mentored Community Reentry Reduces Recidivism
JF Criminal justice and behavior
VO 47
IS 4
SP 437
OP 456
A1 Sells, Dave
A2 Abdur-Raheem, Jehan
A2 Barber, Charles
A2 Curtis, Anderson
A2 Emigh-Guy, Meredith
A2 Fallon, Patrick
A2 Hasson, Jacob
A2 Klimczak, Michele
A2 Meaden, Cathleen
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1767329423
AB Most people released from incarceration in the criminal justice system return to prison within 3 years. To improve community reentry, national initiatives have promoted new and revitalized programming, including peer mentorship, though this approach remains largely unstudied. Fifty-five men participated within a pilot randomized controlled trial investigating the effect of peer mentorship upon recidivism. Hierarchical binary logistic regression including recidivism risk, as well as group assignment to either a standard services for community reentry condition or standard services plus peer mentorship condition, showed that those receiving mentorship had significantly lower recidivism. It appears that peer mentorship with a model focus upon early intervention, relationship quality, criminal desistance, social navigation, and gainful citizenship may promote the complex task of early community reentry. Given this pilot’s small sample, future research should confirm this association on a larger scale, enabling longitudinal and treatment component analyses examining the relative contributions of mentorship model factors.
K1 Parole
K1 Peer influence
K1 Recidivism
K1 Reentry
K1 Reintegration
K1 Risk
DO 10.1177/0093854820901562