New Data! The Boston Reentry Study, Massachusetts, 2012-2014
The Boston Reentry Study, Massachusetts, 2012-2014 (ICPSR 39307) was a mixed-methods, longitudinal study of 122 men and women released from Massachusetts state prisons to the Boston area, that focused on the transition into the community during participants' first year after prison release.
Interviews were conducted a week before prison release, and then repeatedly over the following year, to examine the complexity of integration after incarceration. Questions draw from participants' life histories, including childhood experiences, to understand how individual biographies shape the transition into the community. Variables in the quantitative data file available through DSDR relate to housing, employment, health, family history, and criminal involvement.
The Boston Reentry Study is supported in part by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Apr 3, 2025