What Drives the Dose of Treatment Received During Reentry? Dissecting the Effects of Housing Stability, Employment Stability, and Travel Distance to Treatment

• In Event: Issues and Challenges in Reentry

Abstract

Two decades of research on prisoner reentry has generated knowledge on the significant challenges individuals must manage upon release from prison and specified the greatest at-risk period of recidivism as being the first 6 months to one year after release. While the pool of known challenges has reached consensus, there has been little research on the dynamic nature of experienced challenges and how they may change or interact with one another over time. The present study explores how the independent or accumulated effects of housing, employment, and transportation may directly or indirectly shape participation in substance abuse treatment services. The sample consists of 250 individuals who experienced the reentry transition to one Midwestern city and were ordered to substance abuse treatment. Policy implications and avenues for further research will be presented and discussed.

Author

• Eric Grommon, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis