ERIC Number: EJ915998
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
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ISSN: ISSN-1050-9674
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Reintegration Services for Long-Term Dangerous Offenders: A Case Study and Discussion
Day, Andrew; Ward, Tony; Shirley, Lyn
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, v50 n2 p66-80 2011
Successfully reintegrating long-term prisoners back into the community often presents significant challenges for service providers. Ex-prisoners typically experience high levels of social stigma; present with multiple needs; and can struggle to find meaningful employment, stable accommodation, and to maintain supportive relationships. There have, however, been relatively few published evaluations of the outcomes achieved by postrelease services on managing the risk of reoffending and, as such, it is difficult for service providers to meet these multiple and complex levels of need in ways that might be considered to be evidence based. In this article we describe a specialized prerelease support, reentry, and reintegration service that is offered to long-term prisoners, many of whom have been legally labelled as "dangerous." The current model of service delivery is reviewed and discussed in the context of current theories of offender rehabilitation and reintegration. These are then used to discuss the way in which services for this group of offenders might best be conceptualized. (Contains 3 notes and 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Criminals, Violence, Crime, Correctional Rehabilitation, Social Bias, Employment, Risk, Recidivism, Services, Social Integration, Interviews, Agency Cooperation, Program Implementation, Organizational Culture, Outreach Programs, Foreign Countries
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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