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Pathways to Freedom: How Young People Create a Life After Incarceration

Type: William T. Grant Scholars

Start Date: July 2007

End Date: June 2012

Grant Amount: $410,000

Person Affiliation(s): Nikki Jones

Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara

How do young men and women from the inner-city accomplish successful transitions from incarceration to life back in society? As many as one-third of formerly incarcerated young adults will return to jail or prison within several years of their release. Much of the current research on post-incarceration transitions focuses on understanding why adults return to incarceration; it provides little information about the settings young people return to and how particular contextual circumstances—social, cultural, and economic—impact a young person’s attempts to transition from incarceration to freedom successfully. The researcher will examine how inner-city young men and women ages 18 to 25 accomplish successful transitions from incarceration. The study will examine the various settings young people return to post-incarceration, explain the strategies young people use to negotiate these settings after a period of incarceration, and map how formerly incarcerated young people and neighborhood residents, resources, and institutions interact to accomplish successful transitions from incarceration to society.

Focus Areas of this Grant

Age Range of Participants: 18 - 25

Gender: Male, Female

Location: Urban

Race/Ethnicity: Asian, Black or African American, Latino or Hispanic, White

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