@article{ref1,
title="Recidivism of low-risk people that receive residential community-based correctional programs: the role of risk contamination",
journal="Journal of research in crime and delinquency",
year="2022",
author="Ostermann, Michael",
volume="59",
number="5",
pages="659-695",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: Placing low-risk individuals into residential community-based correctional programs often results in minimal or iatrogenic impacts upon recidivism. Contamination through exposure to higher-risk program participants is a mechanism that has been used to explain these effects. This study empirically explores this phenomenon.<br><br>METHODS A series of survival models examine data from low-risk paroled people released from a state's prisons from 2005 to 2011 (n?=?3,862) to assess the impact of residential community-based program participation upon recidivism. The daily rate of exposure to higher-risk people while attending programs is modeled for a subset of program participants (n?=?202) to assess impacts upon time to failure within 18-months of program completion.<br><br>RESULTS Program participation increased the hazards of failure by approximately 66% for low-risk paroled people. Exposure to higher-risk people did not have significant impacts upon recidivism.<br><br>CONCLUSIONSThe current study coincides with past work demonstrating that policy makers and practitioners should be mindful of the potential iatrogenic or minimal recidivism effects associated with treating low-risk people through residential community-based programs. The mechanisms by which these effects are produced are in need of further exploration. Particular attention should be paid to whether programs can disrupt pro-social aspects of low-risk peoples? lives.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4278",
doi="10.1177/00224278221078020",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00224278221078020"
}