The Effect of Reentry Court Participation on Multiple Recidivism Measures

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Abstract

Over the past decade, reentry courts have emerged across various state and federal jurisdictions in response to renewed focus on providing released offenders with opportunities and incentives to succeed in the community. The basic premise of most reentry courts is marshal the resources of the court, probation, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and community stakeholders to a period of intensive, yet supportive post-incarceration supervision to address both risks and needs of the offender. Extant evaluations of the impact of reentry court programming on recidivism have been decidedly mixed. The current study reports results from a random assignment experimental design evaluation of a single federal jurisdiction examining multiple measures of recidivism.

Authors

• Matthew Crow, University of West Florida

• John Smykla, Florida Atlantic University