Community reintegration of ex-prisoners is an important issue in efforts to reduce recidivism.
The present study examined the multiple, complex, and dynamic nature of variables …

Prisoners experience high rates of chronic physical health problems, poor mental health and
high rates of substance misuse. However, little is known about what happens to prisoners …

Through 2014 Uniform Crime Report (UCR) data for all 50 US states, this research explores
the relationship between decriminalization and recreational and medical marijuana …

This study meta-analyzes 23 independent studies that included information from 28,265
homicide offenders across nine countries. On average, 48% of homicide offenders were …

Abstract The Australian Institute of Criminology has undertaken research concerning the
drug use careers of incarcerated offenders in Australia entitled the Drug Use Careers of …

We examine the effects of the type and frequency of drug use on whether offenders engage
in economic crime to obtain money for drugs. Analyses are based on a nationally …

The Australian criminological literature is replete with evidence of associations between
illicit drugs and crime. For more than 13 years the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) …

Despite broad scholarship documenting the compounding effects and self-reproducing
character of incarceration, ways of conceptualising imprisonment and the post-prison …

In what follows, I draw on selected narratives of young men in secure care in order to build a
picture of the subjective experience (s) of conditional release and (reasons for) …

The article focuses on a less-discussed issue of social marginalization of people leaving
penitentiaries, which is the prevalence of multifaceted health problems experienced by …