The incarceration and recidivism rates in United States jails are marked by high mental
health and substance use problems and racial disparity. Nearly 9 million people cycle …

On a typical day in 2008, 776,573 individuals were behind bars in nearly 3,500 US jails. Yet
the potential benefits of social services in achieving lower recidivism rates and successful …

When individuals reenter their communities after incarceration, they frequently have
difficulties in meeting their basic needs. Social support can help buffer some of the …

Objectives: Informed by social control and differential coercion and social support theories,
we examine how multiple theoretically and methodologically distinct factors of family support …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gain understanding about the effectiveness of a
forensic peer support program's impact on reducing criminal recidivism. People with …

High rates of lifetime trauma experiences exist among men incarcerated in US state and
federal prisons. Because lifetime trauma experiences have been linked to problematic …

Using data from the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative evaluation, this study
measures the effects of perceived levels of emotional and instrumental family support on the …

Although social integration has consistently been linked to mental well-being among the
general population, this relationship has not been explored for persons confined in total …

To date, most of the research and programming that discusses the use of family resources to
aid reentry has focused on prisons. Because jails are substantially different, it is not clear …

Incarceration removes individuals from their families and their communities, increasing the
potential for disrupted relationships, community fragmentation, and burden on service …