A Description of the Employment Patterns of Persons Released From Virginia's Correctional Institutions Between July 1, 1998, and June 30, 2002

The 35,882 former offenders released by Virginia's Department of Corrections during the period of July 1, 1998, through June 30, 2002, are profiled using data provided by Virginia's Department of Corrections and Department of Correctional Education as well as the Virginia Employment Commission. Demographic characteristics of recidivating and non-recidivating former offenders released during this period, with sub-groupings to include gender, race, age, employment status, earnings, employment stability, and educational completion, as defined in the operational definitions of the study, are detailed, and the researcher's observations are noted.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Curriculum and Instruction

Department dc:contributor.department

Teaching and Learning

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2004

Author dc:creator

• Morrissey, Michael Edward

Chairs dc:contributor.committeechair

• O'Reilly, Patrick A.
• Eschenmann, Konrad Kurt

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Stewart, Daisy L.
• Ogle, J. Todd
• Colville, Christopher S.

• Correctional Education
• Virginia Correctional Education
• Recidivism

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-09082004-155317

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/28898