A Public Administration Headache: An Evaluation Analysis of Prison Policy and Recidivism Toward Social Reintegration

We focus on discovering, describing, and understanding prison recidivism; secondly, we intend to know if the prison policy contributes to deterrence of crime; thirdly, we want to know if prison labor and vocational education and training influence the rate of prison recidivism by increasing social r...

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Published in:International journal of public administration 2015-08, Vol.38 (10), p.701-711
Main Author: Fonseca, Jaime R. S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chi-square test
Clustering
Convict labor
Crime
Crime prevention
Criminal law
Deterrence
Heterogeneity
Independence
Job training
prison policy
Prisoners
Prisons
Public administration
Public policy
Recidivism
Recidivists
Rehabilitation
Social classes
Social integration
Social reintegration
Studies
Vocational education
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Summary:We focus on discovering, describing, and understanding prison recidivism; secondly, we intend to know if the prison policy contributes to deterrence of crime; thirdly, we want to know if prison labor and vocational education and training influence the rate of prison recidivism by increasing social reintegration or decreasing prison recidivism. We use a sample of n = 1643 prisoners, multivariate clustering methods, focusing on latent class models, to trace the profile of prisoners, and we use the chi-square test to test dependence/independence of some variable pairs. Data support the heterogeneity of inmates, resulting in two clusters, recidivists (50%), and nonrecidivists.
ISSN:0190-0692
1532-4265
DOI:10.1080/01900692.2014.955197