Title Offender Reentry and Cognitive Intervention : Propensity Score Matching Utility for Outcome Assessment / Ken Balusek.

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Description	1 online resource (161 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship
	Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Summary	The mass incarceration policies of recent decades have created the corresponding realization that the vast majority of these individuals will someday be released back into society. Failure to properly prepare these individuals for their return to society will result in a large number of these individuals returning to prison. This research uses propensity score matching to create comparison groups in order to evaluate a cognitive intervention program designed to reduce recidivism. Survival analysis reveals that offenders who completed the program were less likely to recidivate and their surviva.
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Subject	Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States.
	Criminals -- Rehabilitation.
	United States.
	Recidivism -- United States -- Prevention.
	Recidivism.
	Prisoners -- Deinstitutionalization -- United States.
	Prisoners -- Deinstitutionalization.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Balusek, Ken. Offender Reentry and Cognitive Intervention : Propensity Score Matching Utility for Outcome Assessment. El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, ©2014 9781593327231
ISBN	9781593327798 (electronic book)
	159332779X (electronic book)