Doing Time and the Unemployment Line: The Impact of Incarceration on Ex-Inmates Employment Outcomes

• NCJ Number: 254383
• Journal: Crime & Delinquency Volume: 65 Issue: 5 Dated: 2019 Pages: 705-728
• Author(s): Amanda. D. Emmert
• Date Published: 2019
• Length: 24 pages
• Grant Number(s): 86-JN-CX-0007
• Sponsoring Agency: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical); Report (Study/Research); Report (Grant Sponsored); Program/Project Description
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This study measured the influence multiple incarcerations and age at first incarceration had on the lengths of time ex-inmates were unemployed and the amount of time ex-inmates spent looking for employment.

Abstract

Fixed-effects analyses of longitudinal data from the Rochester Youth Development Study (RYDS) found a relationship between incarceration at younger ages and longer non-employment experiences, but no association between incarcerations between 23 and 32 years old and non-employment lengths. On the other hand, those individuals who experienced incarceration younger spent time looking for employment equivalent to their never-incarcerated peers, despite having nonequivalent periods without employment. (publisher abstract modified)