Homeless ex-offenders experience many obstacles post-release, further complicating an already challenging reentry process; they also have a higher risk of reoffending. This study adds to existing research by examining possible factors linked to program completion among homeless men enrolled in a reentry program. The data, obtained by The NYC Doe Fund, allowed for the analysis of demographic, family-related, and work-related characteristics tied to the participant; criminal and substance abuse history were also used as case controls in the multivariate logistic regression models. The results showed that participants who were older and who earned a training certificate were more likely to complete the program, while participants with a felony were less likely to finish. In response to these findings, the study offers policy recommendations to support clients at high risk of program non-completion.
Exposure to stressors can make policing a mentally harmful profession. Since police personnel are shouldered with responsibilities that carry public safety implications, understanding their intentions to seek counseling becomes important. Questionnaire data from ( N = 297) sworn and civilian police personnel working in a Mid-Atlantic law enforcement agency were collected to understand sample member intentions to seek counseling, and the factors affecting those intentions. Specifically, this study was interested in researching whether police personnel exhibiting symptoms of mental illness were willing to seek counseling. From frequency distribution output, approximately 70% of respondents indicated a willingness for treatment. Ordered logistic regression models revealed symptoms of burnout, depression, and alcohol use disorder decreased the likelihood to seek counseling, while anxiety increased the likelihood. Findings highlight a need for targeted interventions, such as peer support, that can assist police personnel in need of counseling.
Mobilizing feminist theory in tandem with Ian Hacking’s ‘making up people’ framework, this paper examines the gendered logics that are foundational to the ways in which the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services’ constructs, manages and makes up incarcerated transgender people in Ontario, Canada. The resulting analysis indicates that transgender people in Ontario prisons are made up by conflicting policy characterizations that precariously position them as fluctuating between two diametrically opposed subject positions: at-risk and risky. These characterizations support the Ministry’s broader effort to (re)frame incarceration as a ‘caring’, ‘inclusive’ practice, making it easier and supposedly safer to incarcerate transgender individuals. Policy reforms, which focus on providing accommodations to trans people who are in prison, perpetuate the idea that this population requires special correctional intervention while failing to see the institution as in need of abolition.
Organizational trust is an important concept, which has led to calls to increase the level of both supervisor and management trust. Research on how workplace variables are linked to supervisor and management trust is limited. The present study used the job demands–resources model to explore how job demands (role overload, fear of victimization, and routinization) and job resources (job autonomy, instrumental communication, and quality supervision) were related to supervisor and management trust. Using data from 120 Nigerian prison staff, communication and supervision were related to higher levels of supervisor trust, and all three job resources were related to higher management trust; the other variables had nonsignificant associations with both types of trust. An implication from a policy perspective is that prison administrators should implement interventions to raise job autonomy, instrumental communication, and quality supervision to enhance the level of supervisor and management trust among the staff.
This research examines if uniformed police volunteers, called ‘special constables’ across England and Wales, are trained to understand and utilize evidence-based policing (EBP) in their volunteering. As the government across the United Kingdom focuses on neighbourhood policing, the special constabulary is key in enacting such activities within communities. The research used an anonymous online questionnaire, collecting data from 129 volunteer special constables across four different rural and urban police forces in England and Wales. The findings demonstrate that most respondents had received little training relating to EBP; however, nearly two-thirds of the respondents used EBP regularly. Despite national learning programmes, the data suggests that special constables may not be receiving similar opportunities for training as their regular police officer counterparts, yet are still expected to both support and complete similar policing tasks. This article concludes by discussing the implications of EBP training for volunteers and areas for future research.
