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- Title
COMMUNITY CONTACT AND INMATE ATTITUDES.
- Authors
Waldo, Gordon P.; Chiricos, Theodore G.; Dobrin, Leonard E.
- Abstract
This article presents research which attempts to ascertain the type and extent of attitude change that may be attributed to work release, which is a major form of contact between institutionalized offenders and the larger community. Although work release has been widely accepted by correctional administrators and its benefits widely presumed, little of an empirical nature is known concerning the impact of this form of contact between the community and the institutionalized offender. The number of inmates released for gainful employment was limited to a maximum of 2% of the total inmate population by the 1967 statute, but this limitation has been removed by subsequent action of the U.S. legislature. Despite the fact that work release has existed in the U.S. since 1913, the criminological literature seems to have taken little notice of the practice prior to the 1960s. Empirical assessments of the rehabilitative consequences of work release have been conducted, primarily, by comparing rates of recidivism measured for work release participants with those of all other inmates released from the same or similar institutions. During the middle phase, it is argued, self-esteem improves as the inmate is prisonized and orients himself toward other inmates within the prison subculture.
- Subjects
ATTITUDE change (Psychology); CRIMINALS; COMMUNITIES; RECIDIVISM; WORK release of prisoners; EMPLOYMENT
- Publication
Criminology, 1973, Vol 11, Issue 3, p345
- ISSN
0011-1384
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1745-9125.1973.tb00602.x