Understanding Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Differences in the Relationship between Prison Visitation and Recidivism

该项目将研究监狱探视对累犯的影响，重点是这种关系如何因性别、种族和民族而异。 大规模的监禁运动几乎没有减少被释放的罪犯继续犯罪行为的可能性。鉴于妇女以及少数种族和族裔群体的监禁率迅速上升，这些群体日益感受到监禁的有害影响。 男性和女性以及来自不同种族和族裔背景的囚犯在监禁期间可能获得不同程度和类型的社会支助，出狱后可能面临独特的社会和结构性不利条件。 因此，不同群体的探视接触质量和探视服务的功能可能不同。 目前的项目通过结合亚利桑那州囚犯的定量和定性数据来审查这些可能性。 2011-2013年释放的15，000多名囚犯的定量数据将用于确定不同种族和族裔人口中探视与累犯之间的大致模式。 对目前被监禁的231名囚犯进行访谈的定性数据将提供有关囚犯的更详细信息？有探视的经验。 结合起来，分析将有助于确定谁受益于监狱探视以及为什么受益。

This project will examine the impact of prison visitation on recidivism with a focus on how this relationship may vary by gender and across racial and ethnic groups. The mass incarceration movement has done little to reduce the likelihood of continued criminal behavior by released offenders. Given that imprisonment rates have grown rapidly among women and racial and ethnic minorities, the harmful effects of incarceration are increasingly felt among these groups. Males and females, and prisoners from different racial and ethnic backgrounds, may have access to different levels and types of social support during imprisonment, and can face unique social and structural disadvantages upon their release from prison. As such, the quality of visitation encounters and the function that visits serve may differ across groups. The current project examines these possibilities by combining quantitative and qualitative data on prisoners in Arizona. Quantitative data on over 15,000 prisoners released from 2011-2013 will be used to establish broad patterns between visitation and recidivism among a racially and ethnically diverse population. Qualitative data from interviews on 231 prisoners currently incarcerated will provide more detailed information on inmates? experience with visitation. In combination, the analyses will help determine who benefits from prison visitation and why.