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The Committee on Law and Justice will convene an ad hoc committee to examine the measurement and evaluation of success among people released from prison. It will undertake a critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of current measures of recidivism and the correlation of positive outcomes for individuals who do not return to incarceration as well as corresponding measures of reentry from prison that go beyond the avoidance of negative outcomes, such as crime, and consider broader measures of success.
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·2022
Nearly 600,000 people are released from state and federal prisons annually. Whether these individuals will successfully reintegrate into their communities has been identified as a critical measure of the effectiveness of the criminal legal system. However, evaluating the successful reentry of indivi...
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The National Academies, of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will appoint an ad hoc multidisciplinary committee to examine the measurement and evaluation of success among people released from prison to undertake a critical analysis of the following:
1. The strengths and limitations of current measures of recidivism, including variation according to different individual needs and characteristics, and identification of key factors and outcomes that are not adequately captured by this measure alone.
2. The correlates of positive outcomes for individuals who do not return to incarceration and corresponding measures of reentry from prison that go beyond the avoidance of negative outcomes, such as crime, and consider broader measures of success (e.g., health, victimization, family attachment, educational attainment, employment, income, and civic engagement).
A final report will draw conclusions and make recommendations as appropriate and will be subject to institutional review standards.
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Arnold Ventures
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Ellis Grimes
Briana Smith
Emily Backes
Natacha Blain
