Offender reentry : background, federal programs, and an annotated bibliography / Micah J. Hiram, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hiram, Micah J., editor.

Series:

Criminal justice, law enforcement and corrections.

Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement and Corrections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Recidivists.

United States.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Novinka, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The prison population in the United States has been growing steadily for more than 30 years. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that since 2000 an average of 680,000 inmates have been released annually from state and federal prisons and almost 5 million ex-offenders are under some form of community-based supervision. Offender reentry can include all the activities and programming conducted to prepare ex-convicts to return safely to the community and to live as law-abiding citizens. The federal government's involvement in offender reentry programs typically occurs through grant funding, which is available through a wide array of federal programs at the Departments of Justice, Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services. However, only a handful of grant programs in the federal government are designed explicitly for offender reentry purposes. This book discusses the correctional statistics, reintegration of released offenders into communities, and recidivism.

Contents:

Offender reentry: correctional statistics, reintegration into the community, and redicidism / Nathan James

Offender reentry annotated bibliography / NIC Information Center.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 6, 2014).

ISBN:

1-63117-497-5