A Public Administration Headache: An Evaluation Analysis of Prison Policy and Recidivism Toward Social Reintegration

Jaime R. S. Fonseca

International Journal of Public Administration, 2015, vol. 38, issue 10, 701-711

Abstract: We focus on discovering, describing, and understanding prison recidivism; secondly, we intend to know if the prison policy contributes to deterrence of crime; thirdly, we want to know if prison labor and vocational education and training influence the rate of prison recidivism by increasing social reintegration or decreasing prison recidivism. We use a sample of n = 1643 prisoners, multivariate clustering methods, focusing on latent class models, to trace the profile of prisoners, and we use the chi-square test to test dependence/independence of some variable pairs. Data support the heterogeneity of inmates, resulting in two clusters, recidivists (50%), and nonrecidivists.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2014.955197

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