Offender Reentry and Cognitive Intervention: Propensity Score Matching Utility for Outcome Assessment

Offender Reentry and Cognitive Intervention: Propensity Score Matching Utility for Outcome Assessment
Ken Balusek
September 2014

ISBN-13:  978-1-59332-723-1 / Hardcover
Dimensions:  5.5 x 8.5 / xii, 150 pages

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Description

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 survival time was longer when compared to offenders who did not complete the program.

About the Author

Ken Balusek, Ph.D., J.D. is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. He also serves as the Director of the Criminal Justice program at Rockhurst. Dr. Balusek received his Ph.D. from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas and his J.D. from The Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. His research interests include corrections, program evaluation, criminological theory, and sexual offending and treatment.

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