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Author Ward, Kyle C., author.

Title Rural jail re-entry : offender needs and challenges / Kyle C. Ward
Edition 1 edition
Published New York : Routledge, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge innovations in corrections ; 4
Routledge innovations in corrections ; 4.
Contents Introduction -- Issues in reentry -- Jail reentry -- Rural framework -- Perceptions of offender reentry challenges -- Methodology -- Results -- Discussion -- Appendices -- References -- Index
Summary Today's high recidivism rates, combined with the rising costs of jails and prisons, are increasingly seen as problems that must be addressed on both moral and financial grounds. Research on prison and jail reentry typically focuses on barriers stemming from employment, housing, mental health, and substance abuse issues from the perspective of offenders returning to urban areas. This book explores the largely neglected topic of the specific challenges inmates experience when leaving jail and returning to rural areas. Rural Jail Reentry provides a thorough background and theoretical framework on reentry issues and rural crime patterns, and identifies perceptions of the most significant challenges to jail reentry in rural areas. Utilizing three robust samples--current inmates, probation and parole officers, and treatment staff--Ward examines what each group considers to be the most impactful factors surrounding rural jail re-entry. A springboard for future research and policy discussions, this book will be of interest to international researchers and practitioners interested in the topic of rural reentry, as well as graduate and upper-level undergraduate students concerned with contemporary issues in corrections, community-based corrections, critical issues in criminal justice, and criminal justice policy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 30, 2017)
Subject Ex-convicts -- Services for -- United States.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation
Ex-convicts -- Services for
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315469843
1315469847
9781315469850
1315469855