Effects of Contradictory Signals on Post-Prison Labor Market Outcomes
2020-R2-CX-0021
Open
Funding First Awarded
2020
$91,465
Ex-offenders
Consequences of a Prison Record for Employment: How Do Race, Ethnicity & Gender Factor In?
Date Published
February 2014
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research),
Presentation (Multimedia)
Agencies
NIJ
NIJ Journal Issue No. 263
NIJ Journal Issue No. 270
Going Home (or Not): How Residential Change Might Help Former Offenders Stay Out of Prison
October 2011
Series
Dr. Kirk discusses how Hurricane Katrina affected ex-prisoners originally from New Orleans and their likelihood of returning to prison. Kirk also discussed potential strategies for fostering residential change among ex-prisoners, focusing specifically on parole residency policies and the provision of public housing vouchers.
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Crime File: Jobs and Crime
January 1984
This video, in the Crime File series, portrays a panel discussion of the empirical evidence of the relationship between unemployment and crime as well as job programs for ex-offenders in New York City and Philadelphia.
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Criminal Background Checks and Hiring Ex-Offenders - Interview at 2009 the NIJ Conference
Date Published
June 2009
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ
Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Judicial Bench Book
Date Published
January 2017
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Reference Material,
Program/Project Evaluation
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Consequences of a Prison Record for Employment - Interview With Scott Decker
Date Published
February 2014
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ
An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Prison Work Release Programs on Post-Release Recidivism and Employment
Date Published
December 2015
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Evaluation
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
An Assessment of Substance Abuse Treatment Programs in Florida's Prisons Using a Random Assignment Experimental Design
Date Published
December 2015
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Evaluation
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Assessing the Impact of Post-Release Community Supervision on Post-Release Recidivism and Employment
Date Published
December 2015
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Evaluation
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Conviction: Impact on Corrections and Reentry
Date Published
January 2016
Publication Type
Legislation/Policy Description,
Legislation/Policy Analysis
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Beyond the Sentence - Understanding Collateral Consequences
Date Published
July 2013
Series
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ
Enterprising Offenders: Texas' Project Re-Enterprise Unites Business, Corrections Communities
Date Published
June 1997
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Child Support, Debt, and Prisoner Reentry: Examining the Influences of Prisoners' Legal and Financial Obligations on Reentry
Date Published
February 2015
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Training and Preparing Inmates for Post-Prison Employment
Date Published
December 2014
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Effect of Collateral Consequence Laws on State Rates of Returns to Prison
Date Published
January 2013
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Legislation/Policy Description,
Legislation/Policy Analysis
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Consequences of a Prison Record for Employment
February 2014
Dr. Decker gave a seminar in NIJ's Research for the Real World series about his research on the impact of race, gender and prison records on finding employment.
Before the seminar, we sat down with Dr. Decker for an interview to discuss his findings and their policy implications.
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Consequences of a Prison Record for Employment: How Do Race, Ethnicity & Gender Factor In?
February 2014
Scientific studies have long documented the negative impact of a prison record on a person's ability to find employment. But what is the impact when gender and race/ethnicity are factored in? Also, most jobs are now advertised online — so how does this affect the ability of former prisoners to find a job?
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Evaluation of the Second Chance Act (SCA) Adult Demonstration 2009 Grantees, Interim Report
Date Published
August 2013
Publication Type
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Evaluation
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
National Institute of Justice's Evaluation of Second Chance Act Adult Reentry Courts: Program Characteristics and Preliminary Themes from Year 1
Date Published
February 2013
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Beyond the Sentence - Understanding Collateral Consequences
What Collateral Consequences Are in the Database?
Extension of Current Estimates of Redemption Times: Robustness Testing, Out-of-State Arrests, and Racial Differences
Date Published
October 2012
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored