Family Matters: Moving Beyond “If” Family Support Matters to “Why” Family Support Matters during Reentry from Prison

Mowen, Thomas J.; Stansfield, Richard; Boman, John H.

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“…Findings from recent work reveal that family conflict is particularly critical in the reentry process (Mowen & Boman, ; Mowen et al., ; Western et al., ). As such, the finding that health limitations have strong, adverse implications for family conflict via their impact on depression contributes to a limited amount of literature on the conditions that bring about family problems among the formerly incarcerated and indicates that health problems after prison are exacerbating a strong and consistent predictor of recidivism.…”

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“…Although researchers have confirmed several psychological and social benefits provided by family contact both during prison and after release, prior work has also been used to assess the criminogenic role of family conflict—a theoretically and empirically distinct concept (Mowen & Boman, ; Mowen, Stansfield, & Boman, ; Mowen & Visher, ; Wallace et al., ). In other words, the presence of family conflict does not necessarily mean the absence of instrumental or expressive support.…”

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Consequences of mental and physical health for reentry and recidivism: Toward a health‐based model of desistance*

2019

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During the last few decades, criminologists have identified several adult roles and statuses, including employment, positive family relations, and economic stability, as critical for promoting successful reintegration and desistance. Very few researchers, however, have investigated the conditions that serve to bring about these transitions and successes crucial for behavior change. As a complement to a burgeoning amount of literature on the impact of incarceration on health, we emphasize the reverse: Health has important implications for reentry outcomes and reincarceration. Informed by multiple disciplines, we advance a health‐based model of desistance in which both mental and physical dimensions of health affect life chances in the employment and family realms and ultimately recidivism. Investigating this issue with longitudinal data from the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) and structural equation models, we find overall support for the health‐based model of desistance. Our results indicate several significant pathways through which both manifestations of health influence employment, family conflict, financial problems, and crime and reincarceration. The findings highlight the need for implementation of correctional and transitional policies to improve health among the incarcerated and avert health‐related reentry failures.

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“…Alward et al investigated relationships over time between outcomes (self-reported recidivism, official reincarceration, self-reported drug use, and self-reported treatment participation) and changes in both internal/within-person (agency, legal cynicism, and readiness for change) and external/between-person (family support and neighborhood quality) factors. Their findings add to the important published work on within-person changes and between-person differences and desistance versus recidivism undertaken with the SVORI dataset (Boman & Mowen, 2018;Mowen et al, 2019).…”

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Empirical Investigations of Strengths and Desistance from Criminal Offending

Langton

2020

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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T his special issue on empirical investigations of strengths and desistance from criminal offending, consists of 11 articles-eight quantitative and three qualitative investigations. The first four studies, all quantitative, are focused on desistance in adolescence. In the fifth contribution, findings are reported for both adolescent and adult samples, making it a transition point in the issue. The focus of the six articles that follow is on desistance in adulthood. Two core features of the literature can be seen. The first, which serves as a segue to comments on the three qualitative studies, concerns the two broad approaches to desistance from crime into which the research can be categorized. The second feature is the range of effects that strengths can be shown to have, about which some thoughts are offered in the concluding comments of this introduction. The first feature of the literature is the operationalization of desistance, in broad terms, as either a dichotomous variable (an event or absence of an event; as it relates to this special issue, a new criminal offense or no new criminal offense at follow-up for an individual member of a group, all of whom, by virtue of inclusion in the group, have at least one known criminal offense) or as a process by which the individual's desistance from criminal involvement unfolds over time (Bushway et al., 2001; Kazemian, 2016; Maruna, 2001). The articles in this special issue by Kelly and Ward, Vidal et al., and Avieli represent qualitative approaches aligned with the process perspective. Kelly and Ward's (this issue) article, intended to add to the literature on gang disengagement in the US and authoritative work by Carson, Decker, Pyrooz, Rosen, and others introduces a resilience framework (Masten, 2016) to this area. They conducted a thematic narrative analysis with

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“…Several studies have documented a positive relationship between family emotional and instrumental support and successful reintegration (Barrick et al, 2014; Mowen et al, 2019; Taylor, 2016; Wallace et al, 2016). For example, Barrick and colleagues’ (2014) study of the effect of social ties on recently released females found family emotional support served as a protective factor decreasing the likelihood of recidivism.…”

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“…Results indicated that greater levels of emotional support were significantly associated with reductions in reoffending. Recently, Mowen and colleagues’ (2019) disaggregated different types of familial support and found only within-individual changes in instrumental family support (e.g., family assistance with housing, employment, transportation), not interactional or emotional support (e.g., feel close to family), were protective against recidivism and drug use across the postrelease SVORI waves. Taken together, existing research establishes the relevance of family support as a correlate of reentry outcomes; however, more research is needed to better understand the nuances of this relationship and specific mechanisms through which family support affects reentry outcomes (Mowen et al, 2019).…”

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Assessing the Relative Influence of Individual Attitudes, Social Supports, and Neighborhood Context on Reentry Outcomes: What Changes Matter Most?

Alward

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Viglione

2020

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Using the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) data set, the current study examined the relationship between internal change factors, including agency, readiness for change, and legal cynicism, and four reentry outcomes (recidivism, reincarceration, drug use, and treatment participation). The study also assessed the impact of external change factors, such as family support and perceived neighborhood quality on reentry outcomes. Using a hybrid model approach, we found that within-individual changes in agency and family emotional support were significantly related to decreased self-reported recidivism and reincarceration over time. Within-individual changes in family emotional support were also significantly related to reductions in self-reported drug use and within-individual changes in readiness for change were positively associated with treatment participation across the postrelease waves of the SVORI data. Between-individual results further demonstrate the salience of change factors on reentry outcomes. Study findings inform desistance models and identify some promising targets for reentry programming.

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Family Matters: Moving Beyond “If” Family Support Matters to “Why” Family Support Matters during Reentry from Prison

Cited by 70 publications

References 70 publications

Consequences of mental and physical health for reentry and recidivism: Toward a health‐based model of desistance*

Consequences of mental and physical health for reentry and recidivism: Toward a health‐based model of desistance*

Introduction to the Special Issue: Empirical Investigations of Strengths and Desistance from Criminal Offending

Assessing the Relative Influence of Individual Attitudes, Social Supports, and Neighborhood Context on Reentry Outcomes: What Changes Matter Most?

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