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NCJ 196441
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Title:
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Emerging Roles and Responsibilities in the Reentry Partnership Initiative: New Ways of Doing Business
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Author(s):
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James M. Byrne Ph.D. ; Faye S. Taxman Ph.D. ; Douglas Young M.S.
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Corporate Author:
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University of Maryland
Bureau of Governmental Research
United States
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Date Published:
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03/2002 |
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Page Count:
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34 |
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Sponsoring Agency:
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Grant Number:
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2000-IJ-CX-0045 |
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Sale Source:
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NCJRS Photocopy Services
Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849-6000
United States
University of Maryland
Bureau of Governmental Research
4511 Knox Road
Suite 201
College Park, MD 20740
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Agency Summary:
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Agency Summary |
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Publisher:
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http://www.bgr.umd.edu |
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Type:
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Program/project evaluations |
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Language:
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English |
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Country:
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United States |
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Annotation:
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This is a report on the evaluation of the Reentry Partnership
Initiative (RPI) -- a Federal program that includes the formation
of a partnership between criminal justice, social service, and
community groups to develop and implement a re-entry process for
offenders -- conducted to examine how the eight demonstration
sites implemented the RPI, with a focus on the organizational
development across agencies to construct new offender re-entry
processes. |
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Abstract:
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The evaluation of the eight sites (Maryland, Vermont, South
Carolina, Missouri, Florida, Nevada, Massachusetts, and
Washington) involved qualitative research methods, including
interviews, focus groups, network analysis surveys of
stakeholders, and a review of documents. The evaluation focused
on measuring the fidelity of the program implementation during
the early stage of the RPI process. The RPI requires key criminal
justice system actors (police, courts, corrections, community) to
redefine their roles and responsibilities in the effort to
reintegrate offenders into the community. This report initially
discusses the essential characteristics of a successful re-entry program: leadership, partnership, and ownership. It advises that RPI programs will involve shared decision-making by police, institutional corrections, community corrections, and
public/private service providers concerning "what to do" with
offenders as they make the transition from the institution to the community. In addition to the aforementioned key actors,
representatives from the community (e.g., victims, victims
advocates, community boards, etc.) will also be involved in
re-entry decision-making. All members of the partnership should
have a voice at each of the following decision points in the
re-entry process: program eligibility, institutional treatment
plans, structured prerelease planning, structured re-entry, and
community reintegration strategies. In presenting the findings of
the evaluation, this report describes how the RPI shared
decision-making strategy has changed the roles and
responsibilities of each of the partnership participants in the
eight demonstration sites. The RPI programs examined shared a
common theme: inclusion of nontraditional partners along with
improvements in system coordination will result in improved
public safety. 13 notes |
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Main Term(s):
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Corrections management |
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Index Term(s):
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Probation or parole decisionmaking ; Parolees ; Prerelease programs ; Interagency cooperation ; Community involvement ; Aftercare decisionmaking ; Parole supervision ; NIJ final report |
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