Work and Post-Prison Adjustment - The Role of Employment in Reducing Economic and Emotional Problems Faced by Ex-Felons

• NCJ Number: 84799
• Author(s): J K Liker
• Date Published: 1981
• Length: 289 pages
• Sale Source: UMI Dissertation Services; Not Available Through National Institute of Justice/NCJRS Document Loan Program
• Publication Type: Thesis/Dissertation
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS. University of Massachusetts - doctoral dissertation

Annotation

This study examines the economic and extra-economic benefits of employment among ex-felons.

Abstract

Drawing on data from a field experiment involving about 2,000 ex-offenders released in Texas and Georgia in 1976, a nonrecursive model of the functions of employment was formulated and tested. Using three-stage least squares, employment was found to reduce emotional stress among ex-felons by providing both economic and 'extra-economic' benefits. Furthermore, there was some feedback effect in that emotional stress was found to reduce subsequent work activity, in turn further aggravating the stressful circumstances faced by the ex-felons. About 40 references and methodological information are appended. (Author abstract modified)