Improving Access to Services for Female Offenders Returning to the Community
Publication year:
2012
| Cataloged on:
Mar. 29, 2012
ANNOTATION: “As a group, women are often overlooked with regard to re-entry programming, and results from the recent evaluation of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) showed that adult females reported a significantly higher need for services than men. This finding highlights a thread running through the re-entry literature that suggests a disconnect between the services individuals need to facilitate a successful re-entry into their community and the services they receive” (p. 18). Sections of this article include: SVORI—the basics; outcomes for SVORI women and non-SVORI women—employment and substance use; The Second Chance Act and other ongoing NIJ research projects; implications for policy and practice; and where to go from here.
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