Assessing the Impact of Post-Release Community Supervision on Post-Release Recidivism and Employment, United States, 2004-2011 (ICPSR 36148)

Version Date: Sep 15, 2021

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Principal Investigator(s):
Bill Bales, Florida State University; David Ensley, Department Of Corrections

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36148.v1

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Summary

This study sought to examine the effect of of two separate forms of post-prison supervision on offender recidivism and employment outcomes: split supervision and conditional release supervision. In order to assess the effect of post-prison supervision on reentry outcomes for Florida inmates, this study addressed the following research questions:

  1. What is the impact of post-release supervision on employment and recidivism?
  2. Do various types of post-release supervision result in different outcomes of employment and recidivism?
  3. How does the length of post-release supervision impact employment and recidivism?
Florida was chosen as the state of focus because of its shift from indeterminate to determinate sentencing and elimination of parole in the 1980s. Researchers used arrest data, corrections data, and employment data from the Federal Department of Corrections, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and the Florida Department of Revenue.

Citation

Bales, Bill, and Ensley, David. Assessing the Impact of Post-Release Community Supervision on Post-Release Recidivism and Employment, United States, 2004-2011. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-09-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36148.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (2011-MU-BX-0006)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

State

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Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2004-01-01 -- 2011-12-31

Date of Collection

2012-01-01 -- 2012-12-31
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Study Purpose

The purpose of this study is to contribute to literature on post-prison release community supervision and amend lack of study on post-prison release restrictions that do not include parole.

Study Design

Data was collected from three sources: corrections data from the Florida Department of Corrections, pre- and post-prison arrest data from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and pre- and post-prison employment data from the Florida Department of Revenue. Data was controlled for grnder, race, and age. Substance abuse among inmates was determined through the Drug Simple Screening Instrument. The researchers used survival analysis, precision matching, and Propensity Score Matching for analysis.

Sample

171,933 individual inmates and 201,447 releases from prison in Florida over the 2004-2011 study period.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Individuals who were released from prison in Florida between 2004 and 2011.

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

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Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

Not applicable.

Presence of Common Scales

None.

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Original Release Date

2021-09-15

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Weight

None.

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