The Boston Reentry Study: Extensions and Analysis

波士顿再入研究：扩展和分析

• 批准号: 1259013
• 负责人: Bruce Western
• 金额: $ 19.27万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-04-01 至 2015-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1259013&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Boston; Reentry; Study; Extensions; Analysis

NSF 1259013Bruce WesternJanuary 30, 2013Under what conditions will men and women released from prison find work, unite with their families, and desist from crime? As incarceration - concentrated among the most disadvantaged - has climbed to historically high levels, these questions have become basic to understanding contemporary crime and poverty. The Boston Reentry Study aims to study the transition from prison to community by collecting data on former Massachusetts state prisoners, newly-released to the Boston area. Support from NSF expands the study sample from 60 to 100 respondents. The data collection has two main parts. First, a series of interviews is conducted with prisoners who are within a month of release to the Boston area. They are interviewed five times over 12 months, both in prison and after release. The sample includes parolees, probationers, and those who have completed sentences (a largely unstudied population). Second, the project will assess attrition and greatly expand the utility of the survey data by linking to administrative records from the Department of Correction (DOC). DOC records provide information on criminal history, prison conduct and programming, and risk assessment. Respondent data may also be linked to Unemployment Insurance and MassHealth records.Studying the transition from prison to community is particularly challenging because the formerly-incarcerated are an acutely disadvantaged, hard-to-reach population that are only loosely connected to stable households. The Boston Reentry Study has two key objectives: to sustain a high rate of study retention over the course of a year of follow-up with released prisoners, and to explain the reentry process of released prisoners in the areas of employment, family life, and criminal desistance. While earlier studies of the formerly incarcerated were marred by high rates of attrition and other under-coverage, the Boston Reentry Study expects to maintain a high rate of retention in four ways: with interview incentives, regular phone check-ins with respondents, interviews with proxies, and the use of place-based contacts in the community. We also expect the main sources of criminal desistance to arise from stable households, steady employment, and the formal institutional supports of social programs and community supervision. In addition to asking in detail about criminal involvement, education and programming, and employment, the study surveys delve into three areas beyond the reach of previous data collections on prison reentry: ties to families and children, patterns of households and residential mobility, and prison climate.The great scale of US incarceration has made the penal system a key institutional influence on many dimensions of socioeconomic disadvantage. High rates of incarceration have had far-reaching effects on poor urban communities, but the scientific challenge is substantial. Because they are typically weakly attached to households but closely connected to penal and other institutions, released prisoners are commonly overlooked and undercounted in studies of urban inequality and poverty. Understanding an acutely disadvantaged population that is jointly at risk of social and economic failure and under-enumeration, is thus a key task for the analysis of contemporary urban poverty.

NSF 1259013 Bruce Westernjan 2月30日，2013年3月30日以下的男人和妇女将从监狱中释放，与家人团结起来并避免犯罪？ 随着监禁（集中在最不利的人中）已攀升至历史上很高的水平，这些问题已成为理解当代犯罪和贫困的基础。 《波士顿再入研究》旨在通过收集有关马萨诸塞州前州囚犯的数据来研究从监狱到社区的过渡，该囚犯新发行到波士顿地区。 NSF的支持将研究样本从60名受访者扩展到100位。数据收集有两个主要部分。首先，在释放波士顿地区一个月内的囚犯进行了一系列采访。在监狱和释放后，在12个月内接受了五次采访。样本包括假释者，缓刑犯和完成句子的人（在很大程度上未被研究）。其次，该项目将通过链接到校正部（DOC）的行政记录来评估损耗并大大扩展调查数据的实用性。 DOC记录提供有关犯罪历史，监狱行为和编程以及风险评估的信息。受访者的数据也可能与失业保险和MassHealth记录有关。研究从监狱到社区的过渡尤其具有挑战性，因为以前被拘留的人是一个严重的弱势群体，难以远程的人口，仅与稳定的家庭密切相关。波士顿再入研究有两个关键目标：在一年的随访过程中，释放囚犯的一年中，要维持高度的研究率，并解释了在就业，家庭生活和犯罪欲望领域中释放囚犯的再入过程。尽管对以前被监禁的早期研究受到了高损耗率和其他底漆的高度损害，但波士顿再入研究期望以四种方式保持较高的保留率：访谈激励措施，与受访者的定期签到电话，对代理人进行访谈以及社区中基于地点的联系。我们还期望犯罪的主要来源来自稳定的家庭，稳定的就业以及社会计划和社区监督的正式机构支持。除了详细询问犯罪参与，教育和编程以及就业外，该研究还研究了三个领域，这些领域超出了先前的数据收集到监狱的重新进入：与家庭和儿童的联系，家庭和住宅流动性的联系以及监狱气候。高监禁率对贫穷的城市社区产生了深远的影响，但科学挑战是巨大的。因为他们通常与家庭和其他机构紧密相关，但释放的囚犯通常在城市不平等和贫穷的研究中被释放的囚犯牢固地联系在一起。因此，了解一个急性弱势群体的人口，该人口具有社会和经济失败和不足的危险，因此是分析当代城市贫困的关键任务。