Low-Skill Employment Opportunity and African American-White Difference in Recidivism  

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Bellair, Paul E. ; Kowalski, Brian R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (http://jrc.sagepub.com/) vol. 48 no. 2 (May 2011), page 176-208.
Topik: Prisoner Reentry; Recidivism; Employment Opportunity; Race and Crime; Neighborhood Context

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: JJ95.12 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Previous contextual analyses of recidivism are limited by a focus on traditional disadvantage indicators. The authors examine whether those indicators, including poverty, family composition, high school dropout, and unemployment explain disproportionate involvement in serious criminal recidivism among African American relative to White ex-prisoners. Given the fundamental necessity of finding employment after release, the authors move beyond traditional measures and investigate the availability of low-skill employment opportunity in the industries that prior research suggests are most likely to hire ex-prisoners (retail and manufacturing). To address the issue, the authors collected and geo-coded data for a representative sample of 1,568 Ohio ex-prisoners released on community supervision during the first six months of 1999. Contextual analysis reveals that race difference in serious recidivism is explained by low-skill employment opportunity in manufacturing and that it is contingent on levels of neighborhood disadvantage and unemployment.

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