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Important research that could help with reentry efforts

By Douglas A. Berman

This new article in USA Today, which is headlined "Study could ease concerns over hiring ex-offenders," provides a report on a new study that has the potential to help reentry efforts for ex-offenders.  Here are the basics:  A study funded by the Justice Department concludes that over time accused robbers, burglars and batterers pose no greater risk to employers than job candidates in the general population. In a review of 88,000 arrestees in New York state, Carnegie Mellon University investigators found, for example, that after about 7 1/2 years the "hazard rate" for an 18-year-old first-time arrestee for robbery declined to the same rate as an 18-year-old in the general population.  For 18-year-olds arrested for aggravated assault, it took about four years to reduce the risk...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 07, 2009 (boomark / email).