Offenders and post-release jobs: Variables influencing success and failure

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 35-68

  Harrison, Byron ^a   Schehr, Robert Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inmate vocational guidance and placement programs; Offender rehabilitation; Post imprisonment employment; Recidivism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750521808     PISSN: 10509674     EISSN: 15408558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J076v39n03_03     Document Type: Article

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