RT Article
T1 Begging for Crime? The Effect of State Laws Restricting Access to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families on Unsuccessful Completion of Parole
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 68
IS 11
SP 2115
OP 2145
A1 Sohoni, Tracy
A2 Piatkowska, Sylwia
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1839616598
AB Transitioning from prison to the community can pose significant hardships as returning individuals seek to support themselves while searching for work and housing. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is one potential service that can help ease this transition, however, in numerous states TANF is  to many former offenders. We conduct a fixed effects analysis on laws banning TANF assistance and state rates of unsuccessful parole completion between 1994 and 2016. We find that states that imposed restrictions on TANF saw an increase in state rates of unsuccessful parole completion. Furthermore, we find no significant difference between full bans and partial bans of TANF, indicating that even partial bans may undermine efforts to successfully reintegrate former offenders.
K1 TANF
K1 Collateral consequences
K1 fixed effects
K1 Recidivism
K1 Reentry
DO 10.1177/00111287211039995