Barriers to Reentry? The Labor Market for Released Prisoners in Post-industrial America
Автор: [автор не указан] Год: 2007 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 0871540878 With the introduction of more aggressive policing, prosecution, and sentencing in since the late 1970s, the number of Americans in prison has increased dramatically. While many have credited these "get tough" policies with lowering violent crime rates, we are only just beginning to understand the broader costs of mass incarceration. In Barriers to Reentry? experts on labor markets and the criminal justice system investigate how imprisonment affects ex-offenders' employment prospects, and how the challenge of finding work after prison affects the likelihood that they will break the law again and return to prison. The authors examine the intersection of imprisonment and employment from many vantage points, including employer surveys, interviews with former prisoners, and state data on prison employment programs and post-incarceration employment rates. Ex-prisoners face many obstacles to re-entering the job market--from employers' fears of negligent hiring lawsuits to...
