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The Prisoner's Release - A Study of the Employment of Ex-Prisoners
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The Prisoner's Release - A Study of the Employment of Ex-Prisoners
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Prison and Prisoners
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For well over one hundred years society had considered ways of
helping prisoners on their release from prison, but there had been
no serious attempt to assess in a scientific manner the value of
such efforts. Originally published in 1974, this book broke with
this tradition and was the first full-scale work published in this
country evaluating carefully whether an active policy of finding
suitable employment for men immediately on their release from
prison had beneficial results. The first part of the book discusses
the historical development of prison after-care from its early
origins in the nineteenth century and indicates how, up to the
Second World War, the primary object of after-care had been
regarded as the reinstatement of the ex-prisoners in employment.
Gradually the specific task of finding jobs for ex-prisoners had
become a peripheral activity considered as the responsibility of
the Department of Employment. The effectiveness of the
Department’s pre-release procedure for prisoners is discussed.
The rest of the book considers the fascinating Apex project set up
to examine the effectiveness of finding work for ex-prisoners. The
work of Apex continued to develop and expand, but the present study
considers the first five years when over four hundred men were
randomly selected from two London prisons and offered the services
of a specialist employment agency. The outcome for these men is
compared with a control group of over three hundred men randomly
selected from the same prisons. This study is concerned with the
general run of the prison population and interestingly shows how
some prisoners accept and others reject the offer of an employment
service. It further indicates the enormous efforts sometimes needed
to find suitable employment for prisoners on release. The outcome
of the job interviews, arranged in terms of the proportions
attending the interviews, starting the jobs and the length of time
men stayed in the jobs arranged, is vital reading for anyone
involved in after-care. An important part of the work is the
examination of the subsequent reconviction rates for the various
groups of offenders and the implication that it seems possible to
predict men who are unlikely to be helped by the simple provision
of employment on release. The final chapter considers critically
some of the assumptions upon which the Apex project was based, and
the possible use of computer techniques in the individualization of
treatment is briefly discussed. The author was particularly well
qualified to discuss this subject, for, apart from his work over a
number of years with several after-care organizations, the present
project involved working in prisons for over three years as well as
interviewing and talking to men after their release. The findings
of this study will interest the wide variety of people concerned
with prison after-care. Criminologists, sociologists, probation
officers and all others working in prisons and after-care will
recognize the important implications of the material presented in
this book.
General
Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Routledge Library Editions: Prison and Prisoners |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
First published: |
1974 |
Authors: |
Keith Soothill
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Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
316 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-257228-4 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-03-257228-0 |
Barcode: |
9781032572284 |
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