Transitional Aid Research Project (TARP), 1976-1977 / Peter Rossi, Richard A. Berk, Kenneth J. Lenihan.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Rossi, Peter.

Berk, Richard A.

Lenihan, Kenneth J.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 7874.

ICPSR ; 7874

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transitional Aid Research Project.

Prison release gratuities--Texas.

Prison release gratuities.

Prison release gratuities--Georgia.

Ex-convicts--Rehabilitation--Texas.

Ex-convicts.

Ex-convicts--Rehabilitation--Georgia.

Ex-convicts--Rehabilitation.

United States.

Georgia.

Texas.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1984.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

The Transitional Aid Research Project (TARP) was a randomized field experiment conducted in Texas and Georgia in 1976-1977 that was designed to reduce recidivism among ex-prisoners by lowering incentives for re-engaging in property crime through provision of minimal levels of income support and extension of some unemployment insurance coverage to released prisoners. This study evolved out of an earlier LIFE (Living Insurance for Ex-Prisoners) study conducted in Baltimore, Maryland in the early 1970s. In the LIFE study, 500 prisoners with a high probability of re-arrest were randomly assigned at release from prison to experimental and control groups which varied by the amount of money received (contingent upon employment or unemployment and job placement services provided). The results showed that ex-prisoners receiving payments were less likely to be re-arrested for property theft-related crimes than those who received only job placement or no services or payments of any kind. The United States Department of Labor commissioned the TARP experiment, designed to replicate the LIFE experiment while providing a larger and more representative sample of prisoners, greater variation in treatment conditions, and administration of payments and job placement services through existing agencies rather than by a special purpose project staff. Texas and Georgia were the states chosen for the experiment, and stratified random samples of inmates were assigned, at the time of release from prison, to experimental and control groups. The groups varied in the amount of money and job placement services they received upon their release. Originally, the data were recorded in nine files for each state corresponding to each of the nine different sources of information for each TARP case. The ICPSR data collection combines these into one file for each state: Part 1 for Texas, and Part 2 for Geo... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07874

Contents:

Part 1: Texas Released Inmate Data; Part 2: Georgia Released Inmate Data

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

Start: 1976; and end: 1977.

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