Description

Crime and Employment crystallizes the issue of work as a rehabilitative instrument in the modern correctional environment. It explores the effect of employment on crime and recidivism, with its implications for correctional programs and operations as well as for ex-offender reintegration into the community. The professionals contributing to this volume evaluate the effectiveness of employment in enabling offenders to desist from crime; the roles of prison versus community correctional services; the success of work programs for older versus younger offenders; the effect of industrial employment on reducing prison misconduct and post-release recidivism; the relevance of prior employment, substance abuse histories, poverty, and family contexts on subsequent inmate work programs; and the availability of quality employment, lawful lifestyles, and community vocational programs in sustaining economic rehabilitation of offenders. This book will be of great value to practitioners and policymakers alike in the areas of corrections, criminal justice, criminology, social problems, labor policy, social welfare, deviance and social control.

Table of Contents

Part 1 FOREWORD: The Correctional Dilemma: Employment and Social Integration
Part 2 PREFACE
Part 3 SECTION 1: PRE-IMPRISONMENT EMPLOYMENT
Chapter 4 Introduction
Chapter 5 Behind the Practitioner's Desk - Chapter 1: Prosecutors, Jobs and Crime
Chapter 6 Chapter 2: The Employment Status Dichotomy: Understanding What This Means and Using it for Your Advantage in Program Development
Chapter 7 Chapter 3: Economic Rehabilitation: A Reassessment of the Link Between Employment and Crime
Part 8 SECTION 2: PRISON INDUSTRIES
Chapter 9 Introduction
Chapter 10 Behind the Practitioner's Desk - Chapter 4: Something to Lose: A Balance and Reality-Based Rationale for Institutional Programming
Chapter 11 Chapter 5: The Effect of Prison Industry and Vocational Training on Post Release Outcome: Does Race Matter?
Chapter 12 Chapter 6: Employment and Crime: What is the Problem and What Can Be Done About it From the Inmate's Perspective?
Part 13 SECTION 3: EX-OFFENDERS
Chapter 14 Introduction
Chapter 16 Behind the Practitioner's Desk - Chapter 7: Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
Chapter 17 Chapter 8: Jabbing Blow, Pitching Rocks, and Stacking Paper: How Drug-Selling Street Gangs Organize the Reentry of Male Ex-Convicts into the Community
Chapter 18 Chapter 9: Work as a Turning Point for Criminal Offenders
Part 19 SECTION 4: IN THE COMMUNITY
Chapter 20 Introduction
Chapter 21 Behind the Practitioner's Desk - Chapter 10: Opportunity Provision in the Context of Merging Science and Community-Based Best Practice
Chapter 22 Chapter 11: Finding Ways to Get Paid: Social Networks and Illegitimate Work
Chapter 23 Chapter 12: Drug Selling: A Rational Choice

Product details

Published Oct 14 2003
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9780759104051
Imprint AltaMira Press
Dimensions 229 x 150 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Jessie L. Krienert

Anthology Editor

Mark S. Fleisher

Contributor

Jess Maghan

Contributor

Kelly Hird

Contributor

Gerald G. Gaes

Contributor

Adam M. Bossler

Contributor

Greg Scott

Contributor

Jeremy Staff

Contributor

Norm White

Contributor

Doug Weiner

Contributor

Candace Kane

Contributor

Jim Burch

Contributor

Kelly Hird

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