Post-Release Employment
Post-Release Employment
- 2006 Annual Report to the Florida Department of Education: This review examines the literature on education, employment, and recidivism in order to identify what is known about whether education or employment might serve as a turning point for juvenile offenders. Chapter 5
- 2006 Annual Report to the Florida Department of Education: An examination of the relationship among academic attainment of youth during commitment and three years of post-release school attendance, diploma attainment, and employment. Chapter 6
- Massachusetts: 2006-2007 Bridging the Opportunity Gap: Job Readiness and Employability Initiative: This report examines career readiness activities that provide “bridges” to employment for youth in the custody of DYS. The purpose of each program was to foster innovative approaches to providing job readiness, job training and employment services that engage and motivate youth, are tailored to the unique needs of youth who are in DYS custody, and are currently being served by DYS Community Re-entry Centers. Entire Document
- Office of Correctional Education (OCE)/Correction Education Association (CEA) -Three State Recidivism Study, 2001: The Correctional Education Association conducted the Three State Recidivism Study for the United States Department of Education Office of Correctional Education. The study was designed to see if education, independent of other programs, could have significant impact on the behavior of inmates after release. Entire Document
- Texas: Employment and Recidivism among Juveniles: This study had two purposes, first to examine the impact of career development on the formation of mature attitudes and competencies for realistic career decision making for incarcerated youthful offenders, and second to determine the likelihood of gaining employment and the probability of recidivism for this population from participation in career development. Entire Document
- Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Correctional Education Benefit Cost Analysis of Vocational Education Programs (Currently Referred To As) Career and Technical Education, 2008: Two approaches are used to present data regarding the costs and benefits of DCE vocational education programs in Virginia prisons. The first includes only re-incarceration costs annualized by type of offense. The second includes re-incarceration costs and recent estimates of criminal justice costs avoided by reduced recidivism. Calculations were made on an annual basis and are therefore conservative since monetary benefits will multiply every year a prisoner does not recidivate. Entire Document
- Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice, DJJ Justice Quarterly, Youth Industries in Virginia: A Comprehensive Review, July 2004: This research presents a snapshot of juveniles released in FY03 who were involved in youth industries during their commitment. It gives background information about the program itself and an overview of recent trends. Employment opportunities are explored in order to see how they compare with youth who were not involved in youth industries. Pages 5-7