WORKSHOP: Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration: Improving Data Collection and Methodology to Advance Theory and Knowledge

这次关于囚犯再入的研讨会将汇集来自学术机构、政策组织和政府的应邀参与者，介绍原创性研究，并分享有关理论观点、高质量数据生成的最佳实践和创新方法的知识。美国经历了监狱人口史无前例的长期增长，因此，大量以前被监禁的人正在重新进入社会。这些人有广泛的需要，如找工作、确保住房和与家庭成员团聚。为了促进成功重返社会和加强公共安全，讲习班将记录最新的研究成果，并强调衔接研究和政策的机制。讲习班的具体目标是通过召集罗格斯大学刑事司法学院的领先和新兴学者和实践者来推动研究、政策和实践。讲习班将帮助研究人员最大限度地利用他们的资源，避免方法和实践上的陷阱，并就囚犯重新进入这一主题产生最高质量和最严格的实证研究。推进重返大气层的研究将产生超出学术界的广泛影响。更透彻地了解成功暂缓、改过自新和重返社会的构成要素可以为公共政策提供信息，这可以帮助数百万以前被监禁的个人，加强公共安全，并使刑事司法从业人员和政策制定者能够有效和高效地利用稀缺资源。

This workshop about prisoner reentry will bring together invited participants from academic institutions, policy organizations, and government to present original research and share knowledge about relevant theoretical perspectives, best practices for the generation of high quality data, and innovative methodologies. The United States experienced a lengthy period of unprecedented prison population growth, and as a consequence substantial numbers of formerly incarcerated individuals are reentering society. These individuals have a broad range of needs such as finding employment, securing housing and reuniting with family members. In order to foster successful reintegration and enhance public safety, the workshop will document cutting edge research findings and highlight mechanisms for bridging research and policy.The specific objectives of the workshop are to advance research, policy and practice by convening leading and emerging scholars and practitioners at the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice. The workshop will help researchers make the best use of their resources, avoid methodological and practical pitfalls, and produce the highest-quality and most rigorous empirical research on the topic of prisoner reentry. Advancing research on reentry will have extensive impacts beyond academic circles. A more thorough understanding of the components of successful desistance, rehabilitation and reentry can inform public policy, which could assist millions of formerly-incarcerated individuals, enhance public safety, and enable criminal justice practitioners and policy makers to make effective and efficient use of scarce resources.