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  • Engaging the Community in Offender Reentry

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    Author(s)
    Young, Douglas
    Taxman, Faye S.
    Byrne, James
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    Byrne, James
    Year published
    2002
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    Abstract
    Part of a series by the Reentry Partnership Initiative (RPI), this paper, sponsored by the Office of Justice Programs and the U.S. Department of Justice, focuses on ways to engage the community in issues involving offenders who return to their communities after a period of incarceration. After presenting a brief literature review of community justice, reentry partnerships, and public safety, the authors discuss what is meant by “community.” Presenting the importance of involving community members in offender reentry because community members are informal agents of control, the authors suggest that community involvement sends ...
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    Part of a series by the Reentry Partnership Initiative (RPI), this paper, sponsored by the Office of Justice Programs and the U.S. Department of Justice, focuses on ways to engage the community in issues involving offenders who return to their communities after a period of incarceration. After presenting a brief literature review of community justice, reentry partnerships, and public safety, the authors discuss what is meant by “community.” Presenting the importance of involving community members in offender reentry because community members are informal agents of control, the authors suggest that community involvement sends offenders the message that the community has a vested interest in their success. Discussing unsupervised, unconditional offender releases, this report argues that involvement of the community is imperative to achieving and preserving public safety. After briefly discussing the reentry process used by RPI model programs, the authors emphasize engaging family members, community representatives, victim advocates, community-based organizations, service providers, clergy, and employers as powerful community representatives who can be effective liaisons in the offender reentry process. After discussing several formal social control agencies such as the police, parole agents, judges, and prosecutors, this report concludes arguing that integrating community members in policing, prosecution, and the criminal courts is the most effective way to guide offenders’ reentry into communities.
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    https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=196492
    Copyright Statement
    © 2002 National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS). The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the publisher's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Correctional Theory, Offender Treatment and Rehabilitation
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/50762
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