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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Apel, Robert
• Ramakers, Anke
• Huebner, Beth M.
• Frost, Natasha A.

Titel

Impact of Incarceration on Employment Prospects

Ist Teil von

• Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions, 2019, p.85-104

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Research on the relationship between incarceration and employment has grown in both volume and sophistication in the last 10 years. While studies differ with respect to point estimates and outcomes, there is remarkable consistency in the finding that incarceration is highly disruptive for certain aspects of the employment experience—even relative to other highly disadvantaged individuals, formerly incarcerated individuals experience a great deal of instability in the labor market. Furthermore, the “scarring effects” of incarceration have a tendency to be longstanding. Studies performed outside the United States also indicate that, even in countries with far more liberal and humane justice systems, incarceration is highly disruptive for employment prospects. In this chapter, several diverse lines of evidence are reviewed, among them, individual-level research on incarcerated individuals, as well as research on employer behavior and attitudes. The chapter closes with some modest suggestions for further advancement of research on the incarceration-employment relationship. Research on the relationship between incarceration and employment has grown in both volume and sophistication in the last 10 years. This chapter reviews several diverse lines of evidence, among them, individual-level research on incarcerated individuals, as well as research on employer behavior and attitudes. Non-representative research yields a somewhat mixed set of findings about the relationship between incarceration and employment, indicating either an adverse effect or a null relationship. Null findings tend to characterize studies of youth with criminal justice contacts, as well as studies that utilize incarceration length as the criterion measure. To summarize the findings from administrative data sources, among individuals convicted by the federal government, incarceration seems to worsen employment prospects relative to other criminal justice sanctions. Research from reentry studies points to a number of challenges that face formerly incarcerated individuals in the very first few months during their return to the community.