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Title

How effective is correctional education, and where do we go from here? : the results of a comprehensive evaluation / Lois M. Davis, Jennifer L. Steele, Robert Bozick, Malcolm V. Williams, Susan Turner, Jeremy N.V. Miles, Jessica Saunders, Paul S. Steinberg.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2014]

Supplementary Content

Related Electronic Resource: Web page with full text of Appendix C (on-line only):

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Additional Authors

• Davis, Lois M.
• Steele, Jennifer L.
• Bozick, Robert
• Williams, Malcolm V.
• Turner, Susan, 1954-
• Miles, Jeremy, 1968-
• Saunders, Jessica M., 1978-
• Steinberg, Paul S.
• Rand Corporation, issuing body.
• Rand Safety and Justice (Program), issuing body.
• United States. Bureau of Justice Assistance, sponsoring body.

Description

xxvii, 124 pages : illustration; 28 cm

Summary

More than 2 million adults are incarcerated in U.S. prisons, and each year more than 700,000 leave federal and state prisons and return to communities. Unfortunately, within three years, 40 percent will be reincarcerated. One reason for this is that ex-offenders lack the knowledge, training, and skills to support a successful return to communities. Trying to reduce such high recidivism rates is partly why states devote resources to educating and training individuals in prison. This raises the question of how effective -- and cost-effective -- correctional education is: an even more salient question given the funding environment states face from the 2008 recession and its continuing aftermath. With funding from the Second Chance Act of 2007, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice, asked RAND to help answer this question as part of a comprehensive examination of the current state of correctional education for incarcerated adults and juveniles. The RAND team conducted a systematic review of correctional education programs for incarcerated adults and juveniles. This included a meta-analysis on correctional education's effects on recidivism and postrelease employment outcomes for incarcerated adults, as well as a synthesis of evidence on programs for juveniles. The study also included a nationwide survey of state correctional education directors to understand how correctional education is provided today and the recession's impact. The authors also compared the direct costs of correctional education with those of reincarceration to put the recidivism findings into a broader context.

Subjects

• Juvenile delinquents > Education > United States > Evaluation
• Educational evaluation > United States
• Prisoners > Education > United States > Evaluation

Note

• "RR-564-BJA."--Page 4 of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-124).

Funding (note)

• "The research described in this report was sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and was conducted in the Safety and Justice Program, within RAND Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment."--Title page verso.

Contents

Introduction -- How effective is correctional education for incarcerated adults? -- A systematic review of correctional education programs for incarcerated juveniles -- RAND correctional education survey -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Appendix A. Summary of studies for the juvenile correctional education review -- Appendix B. Rand correctional education survey questionnaire -- Appendix C (available separately online only): Juvenile Scientific Review Protocol.

Call Number

JFF 17-620

ISBN

• 0833084933
• 9780833084934

LCCN

2014935048

OCLC

875240737

Title

How effective is correctional education, and where do we go from here? : the results of a comprehensive evaluation / Lois M. Davis, Jennifer L. Steele, Robert Bozick, Malcolm V. Williams, Susan Turner, Jeremy N.V. Miles, Jessica Saunders, Paul S. Steinberg.

Publisher

Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Funding

"The research described in this report was sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and was conducted in the Safety and Justice Program, within RAND Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment."--Title page verso.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-124).

Connect to:

Electronic Version: Publisher's web page for this work, including abstract, table of contents, and links to scanned depiction of full text:

Related Electronic Resource: Web page with full text of Appendix C (on-line only):

Added Author

Davis, Lois M., author.

Steele, Jennifer L., author.

Bozick, Robert, author.

Williams, Malcolm V., author.

Turner, Susan, 1954- author.

Miles, Jeremy, 1968- author.

Saunders, Jessica M., 1978- author.

Steinberg, Paul S., author.

Rand Corporation, issuing body.

Rand Safety and Justice (Program), issuing body.

United States. Bureau of Justice Assistance, sponsoring body.

Other Form:

Online version: How effective is correctional education, and where do we go from here? Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation, 2014 (OCoLC)875690437

Research Call Number

JFF 17-620