The Limits of Recidivism Measuring Success After Prison (2022) / Chapter Skim
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Department of Justice, defines recidivism as "a person's relapse into criminal behavior, often after the person receives sanctions or undergoes intervention for previous crime" (National Institute of Justice, 2021)
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Nevertheless, widely promulgated recidivism data and statistics have not changed in response to these insights. It is against this backdrop that Arnold Ventures requested that the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convene an expert committee to provide guidance on the measurement and evaluation of success among people released from prison.
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This committee's primary task is to review the relevant research literature on the measurement of recidivism and reentry, call attention to areas needing further research, and draw appropriate conclusions. The measurement of success, however, does require consideration of systemic inequalities that shape experiences of reentry for historically marginalized populations.
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The issues at hand have broad reach. The measurement of success for those returning from prison has implications for the responsibilities of correctional agencies toward the persons under their supervision, the design of effective reentry policy, community-based programs and services across multiple sectors, the well-being of marginalized communities, victim satisfaction with correctional interventions, and crime control policy.
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Research reports in peer-reviewed journals of the disciplines relevant to this study received priority. This report also builds on recent publications of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, including The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences; and Decarcerating Correctional Facilities during COVID-19: Advancing Health, Equity, and Safety (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2020; National Research Council, 2014)
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and the American Journal of Epidemiology (Bedell et al., 2018) has called for medical professionals to make a similar shift, arguing that the language clinicians use to describe patients influences how they treat patients and noting that histories of medical research abuse were tied to stigmatizing views of the incarcerated population.
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Chapter 4 builds on the findings from the previous chapters to identify and analyze alternative measures of success. In addition to considering how best to measure desistance from crime, this chapter examines correlates of positive outcomes beyond desistance and considers broader measures of reentry success in health, education, family, employment, and more.
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Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25945.
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