ANALYSIS OF RECIDIVISM AMONG RESIDENTS RELEASED FROM BOSTON STATE AND SHIRLEY PRE-RELEASE CENTERS DURING 1972-1973

• NCJ Number: 31361
• Author(s): D P LECLAIR
• Date Published: 1975
• Length: 60 pages
• Corporate Author: Massachusetts Dept of Correction
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/
• Publication Type: Program/Project Evaluation
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

A STUDY TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMUNITY-BASED PRE-RELEASE PROGRAMS ON RECIDIVISM, BASED ON EVALUATION OF TWO EXPERIMENTAL CORRECTIONAL PROGRAMS IN MASSACHUSETTS.

Abstract

EVALUATION IS BASED ON STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF RECIDIVISM DATA ON THE FIRST GROUP OF OFFENDERS TO COMPLETE THE EIGHTEEN MONTH PRE-PAROLE PROGRAMS IN JANUARY, 1974. IT WAS FOUND THAT INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD COMPLETED THE COMBINED PRE-RELEASE PROGRAMS UNDER STUDY HAD SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER RATES OF RECIDIVISM THAN A CONTROL GROUP OF SIMILAR TYPES OF INMATES WHO HAD NOT PARTICIPATED IN A PRE-RELEASE PROGRAM. A SERIES OF INMATE TYPES WHICH SEEM TO BE DISPROPORTIONATELY HELPED BY PRE-RELEASE PROGRAM PARTICIPATION WAS TENTATIVELY IDENTIFIED. BOTH FINDINGS ARE SAID TO BE TENTATIVE, PENDING THE COMPLETION OF FURTHER RESEARCH, NOW CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS AT THE MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT MODIFIED)