Imprisonment: Gillis and Nafekh - Impact of community-based employment on offender reintergration
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- Gillis & Nafekh - community based employment and offender reintergration
- effect of recidivism rates of a community based employment scheme
- Federal offenders conditionally released Jan 1998- Jan 2005
- 23,500 individuals - 95% male
- Content analysis - Canada's Offender Management System
- Matched pairs design
- employed or unemployed prior to release
- gender, risk level, release year
- sentence length, substance abuse, etc
- Time to get employment on the outside
- 6 months men
- 10 months women
- Employment programmes prior to finishing
- more likely to remain on conditional release
- 70% employed group remained conditional release
- Conclusion
- employment based programmes important
- help offenders integrate back into society
- Offenders with severe deficits in learning - offered more suitable programming
- Prison: poor record for reducing re-offending
- 64.7% re-convicted within 2yrs
- employment based programmes important
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