December 2022 / Parole
Reentry Research at NIJ: Providing Robust Evidence for High-Stakes Decision-Making
by National Institute of Justice
Overview of reentry, including common barriers to successful reentry and efforts to address those barriers; advances and limitations of risk assessments, and initiatives to create enhanced, accurate assessments that also mitigate potential racial bias and that consider unique gender differences; National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ) evaluation of a graduated sanctions programs; and themes of NIJ’s ongoing reentry research.