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Beyond basic needs: Social support and structure for successful offender reentry
Journal of qualitative criminal justice and criminology, Vol.2, pp.38-67
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2014
Abstract
Barriers to successful reentry have long been identified as impeding an offender’s ability to successfully reenter society upon release from incarceration. As a result, research has long examined what shared obstacles the majority of offenders often face upon reentering society. Much of the research identifies factors such as poor education, obtaining/maintaining employment, stable housing, and transportation as common barriers to successful reentry. By using in-depth interviews with ex-offenders deemed as successful that were conducted by two respective non-profit agencies, the present study explores what significant requirements, if any, successful offenders perceive to need and/or have experienced as lacking while attempting to successfully reenter society. Findings from this study highlight that many of the research-
identified needs are not major barriers because they are often provided for by various non-profit agencies. Furthermore, successful ex-offenders overwhelmingly identify poor social support as a major barrier that oftentimes remains neglected in government and non-profit organizational programming.
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- Title
- Beyond basic needs
- Publication Details
- Journal of qualitative criminal justice and criminology, Vol.2, pp.38-67
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Southwestern Association of Criminal Justice; United States
- Series
- 2
- Copyright
- CC BY 4.0 Permission granted to the University of West Florida Libraries to digitize and/or display this information for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires the permission of the copyright holder.
- Identifiers
- 99380090634106600
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; Former Faculty
- Language
- English