Reintegration of Formerly Incarcerated Young Adults

前被监禁的年轻成年人的重新融入社会SES-1060708大卫哈丁，杰夫莫雷诺夫里根大学摘要在过去的二十年里，在美国监狱和监狱中被监禁的人数急剧上升。因此，每年有70多万囚犯获释。监禁是不成比例地经历了年轻，低技能，非洲裔美国男性，并具有重要的后果。对于那些试图了解来自贫困城市社区的年轻人的经历的人来说，刑事司法系统现在可以说与教育系统或劳动力市场一样重要。由于监禁将个人与社交网络隔离，中断了学业和就业，因此有可能延迟或阻止年轻人的关键人生转变，包括完成学业、第一次全职工作和离开童年家庭。本项目调查了两个关键社会环境--社区和家庭--在前监禁年轻人向成年人转变中的作用。我们的第一个目标是调查哪些以前被监禁的年轻人在出狱后或多或少地进入了弱势社区和家庭。我们将重点关注社会人口特征，如种族和教育，以及与社会支持的联系，以监狱时间和从家到监狱的距离来衡量。我们的第二个目标是研究社区特征（如失业和贫困）和家庭特征（如机构住房）对向成年过渡的关键结果的影响，包括就业，上学，物质使用和进一步的刑事司法系统参与。为了实现这些目标，我们将收集和分析一组18至25岁的密歇根州监狱假释人员的新的行政数据，这些人在2003年和2009年被释放。更广泛的影响（A）通过更好地了解社区和家庭环境，我们可以开始制定方案，满足刑事司法系统中年轻人的发展需要。 我们将撰写政策简报，将我们的发现传达给政策制定者，从业者和公众。(B)该项目将通过收集新的和独特的数据，为社会科学基础设施做出重大贡献。我们预计，我们的数据集将被存档供其他研究人员使用，将引起多个学科学者的兴趣。(C)我们将与来自代表性不足的群体的学生合作并指导他们作为研究助理，包括本科生和研究生，包括女性，非洲裔美国人，拉丁美洲人和第一代大学生。(D)这个项目既利用和加强大学研究人员和国家机构，密歇根州惩教部之间的独特和富有成效的伙伴关系。国家机构拥有大量的行政数据，但很少有资源将其有效地用于研究。

Reintegration of Formerly Incarcerated Young AdultsSES - 1060708David Harding, Jeff MorenoffUniversity of MichiganAbstractOver the last two decades, the number of individuals incarcerated in prisons and jails in the United States has risen dramatically. As a result, over 700,000 prisoners are released each year. Incarceration is disproportionately experienced by young, low skill, African-American males, and has important consequences. For those seeking to understand the experiences of young adults from poor urban communities, the criminal justice system is arguably now as important as the education system or the labor market. Because incarceration separates individuals from social networks and interrupts schooling and employment, it has the potential to delay or preclude key life transitions for young adults, including school completion, first full-time employment, and leaving the childhood household.This project investigates the role of two key social contexts - neighborhoods and households - in the transition to adulthood among formerly incarcerated young people. Our first goal is to investigate which formerly incarcerated young adults end up in more or less disadvantaged neighborhoods and households after their release from prison. We will focus on sociodemographic characteristics such as race and education as well as connections to social support as measured by time in prison and distance from home to prison. Our second goal is to examine the effects of neighborhood characteristics like unemployment and poverty and household characteristics like institutional housing on outcomes critical to the transition to adulthood, including employment, schooling, substance use, and further criminal justice system involvement. To accomplish these goals, we will collect and analyze new administrative data on a cohort of individuals age 18 to 25 released on parole from Michigan prisons in 2003 and followed through 2009. Broader Impacts (A) Through a better understanding of neighborhoods and household contexts, we can begin to develop programs institutions that meet the developmental needs of young adults involved in the criminal justice system. We will write policy briefs that will communicate our findings to policymakers, practitioners, and the public. (B) This project will make a significant contribution to social science infrastructure by collecting new and unique data. We anticipate that our dataset, which we will be archived for use by other researchers, will be of interest to scholars in multiple disciplines. (C) We will work with and mentor students from underrepresented groups as research assistants, both undergraduate and graduate students, including women, African Americans, Latinos, and first-generation college students. (D) This project both capitalizes on and enhances a unique and productive partnership between university researchers and a state agency, the Michigan Department of Corrections. State agencies hold significant quantities of administrative data but rarely have the resources to put them to effective research use.