The role of non profit organisations in prisoner reentry: establishing a US-European research network

第三界别机构现时为罪犯及刑事司法机构提供一系列服务，包括谘询及宣传、辅导计划、教育及培训，以及履行监察及宣传职能。它们参与提供核心的康复和重新安置服务（如戒毒和戒酒治疗、就业和培训、住房援助和咨询），在某些领域（如债务和财务以及对罪犯家庭的援助），服务几乎完全由服务组织提供。拟议的活动对参与这一合作的每一个国家都具有特别重要的意义，在这些国家，在刑事司法混合经济发展的背景下，技术援助组织的作用日益增强，近年来已成为一个有争议的问题。事实上，在英格兰和威尔士，这一主题在司法部根据结果和社会影响支付债券议程的最新发展背景下变得特别相关，该议程作为一项创新和独特的试点计划获得了国际关注。调查人员为这一新兴研究领域带来了互补的研究能力，他们非常熟悉关于第三部门参与刑事司法的日益增多的文献，并对这些文献作出了重大贡献。所有人都与相关从业者组织有良好的联系，并且已经为正在进行的关于第三部门在各自国家刑事司法中的作用变化的辩论做出了重大贡献：罗西·米克（PI）撰写了许多关于第三部门组织在刑事司法中的作用的学术文章，罪犯对TSOs减少再犯罪的看法，以及专业利益相关者的观点。她在一系列刑事司法环境中进行定性和定量研究方面经验丰富，她最近完成了一个由esrc资助的为期两年的项目，探索第三部门在囚犯康复中的作用。她曾获得富布赖特奖学金，对加州的青少年司法系统进行比较研究。Martine Herzog-Evans教授在法律程序、国际法、家庭法和刑事司法方面著述颇多。她出版了18本书和250多篇文章或百科全书条目。Beverly Frazier博士（Co-I）对囚犯重返社会的社区机构能力（CIC）进行了研究，使用了来自800多家非营利组织的调查数据，以及从联邦、州和县惩教部门获得的行政数据。她撰写了许多期刊文章，章节和一本即将出版的关于美国基于信仰的组织在囚犯重返社会中的作用的书。

Third sector organisations (hereafter TSOs) currently provide a range of services to offenders and criminal justice organisations, including advice and advocacy, mentoring schemes, education and training, as well as performing watchdog and advocacy functions. They are involved in the provision of core rehabilitative and resettlement services (such as drug and alcohol treatment, employment and training, housing aid and advice) and in some areas (such as debt and finance and assistance to offenders' families) services are almost entirely provided by TSOs. The proposed activities have particular importance in each of the countries represented in this collaboration, where the growing role of TSOs in the context of the development of mixed economies of Criminal Justice has developed as a contentious issue in recent years. Indeed, in England and Wales this topic has become especially relevant in the context of recent developments around the Ministry of Justice's Payment by Results and Social Impact Bond agenda, which has gained international attention as an innovative and unique pilot scheme.The investigators bring complementary research capacities to this emerging field of study, and are extremely familiar with, and have themselves made significant contributions to, the growing literature on third sector involvement in Criminal Justice. All have excellent contacts with relevant practitioner organisations and have already made substantial contributions to the ongoing debates on the changing role of the third sector in Criminal Justice in each of their countries: Rosie Meek (PI) has written a number of scholarly articles on the role of third sector organisations in Criminal Justice, offender perceptions of TSOs in reducing reoffending, and the views of professional stakeholders. She is experienced in carrying out qualitative and quantitative research in a range of Criminal Justice settings and she has recently completed an ESRC-funded two year project exploring the role of the third sector in prisoner rehabilitation. She was previously awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to carry out comparative research into juvenile justice systems in California. Professor Martine Herzog-Evans (Co-I) has written extensively on legal processes, international law, family law and criminal justice. She has published 18 books and more than 250 articles or encyclopaedia entries. Dr Beverly Frazier (Co-I) has carried out research on community institutional capacity (CIC) for prisoner reentry, using survey data from over 800 non-profit organisations, as well as administrative data obtained from federal, state and county corrections departments. She has authored a number of journal articles, chapters and a forthcoming book on the role of faith-based organisations in prisoner reentry in the United States.