Growing Knowledge on Individuals Involved with the Criminal Justice System: The Importance of the Second Chance Act and Hawaii HOPE

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Abstract

With support from and in collaboration with BJA, NIJ is engaging in innovative research on offender reintegration. This panel will highlight two major efforts in this area. The first involves three on-going evaluations that will examine the effects of the Second Chance Act on individuals involved with the criminal justice system. The second is the Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement Demonstration Field Experiment (HOPE DFE) that will examine the implementation and successes of the HOPE probation program in the U.S. mainland. The discussant will provide project updates.

Author

• Seri Irazola, National Institute of Justice