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，重点关注这种关系如何因性别和种族和族裔群体而异。大规模监禁运动在减少释放罪犯继续犯罪的可能性方面收效甚微。鉴于妇女和少数种族和族裔的监禁率迅速上升，监禁的有害影响日益在这些群体中感受到。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持，并且在从监狱释放后可能面临独特的社会和结构劣势。因此，访问的质量和访问的功能可能因群体而异。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检验这些可能性。2011年至2013年期间释放的1.5万多名囚犯的定量数据将用于在不同种族和族裔的人口中建立探视和再犯之间的广泛模式。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。有探视经验。综合起来，这些分析将有助于确定谁从监狱探视中受益，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.