The Limits of Recidivism Measuring Success After Prison (2022) / Chapter Skim
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Formerly incarcerated individuals and reentry practitioners should be directly involved as partners in each stage of the review, development, validation, and implementation of new measures of success among persons released from prison.
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following an individual's release from prison. Traditionally, recidivism rates have been used as a near-universal measure to evaluate the success of correctional policies, correctional agencies, and reentry 1The number of individuals released from state and federal prisons fell to 549,000 in 2020.
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First, it discusses multiple limitations of recidivism as a measure of correctional success, and it proposes significant changes in the way post-release criminal behavior is measured. Second, it considers measures of success that go beyond recidivism and provide indicators of post-release success in multiple life domains, including health, family, employment, housing, civic engagement, and personal well-being.
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2. The correlates of positive outcomes for individuals who do not return to incar ceration and corresponding measures of reentry from prison that go beyond the avoidance of negative outcomes, such as crime, and consider broader measures of success (e.g., health, victimization, family attachment, educa tional attainment, employment, income, and civic engagement)
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3. Do current measures of recidivism adequately capture the multiple dimensions of success and the multiple purposes of the criminal legal system, including crime reduction, rehabilitation, and justice for crime victims and survivors?
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The first public session included a moderated conversation highlighting the lived experiences of formerly incarcerated individuals, as well as research presentations focused on data and methods for measuring recidivism and qualitative approaches to studying reentry. The second public session included research presentations on theories of identity change and desistance from crime, as well as moderated conversations highlighting practitioner expertise in reentry, health, employment, education, and housing.
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It has since been adopted in other areas of health and medicine and is now regularly applied to people with mental health conditions and individuals diagnosed as obese. By 2016, the Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs had formally adopted person-first language to describe formerly incarcerated people in an effort to "reduce not only the physical but also the psychological barriers to reintegration" (Mason, 2016)
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