NCJ Number
240384
Journal
Justice Quarterly Volume: 29 Issue: 5 Dated: October 2012 Pages: 619-649
Date Published
October 2012
Length
31 pages
Annotation
This article gives an overview of recent corrections research.
Abstract
Research in the area of corrections is expansive in its breadth, impressive in its depth, and grows with each year that passes. One knows so much more about the correctional enterprise than one knew even just a decade ago, and yet there is still so much uncharted territory and so much one could learn. In this article, the authors review key research findings in the four areas of mass incarceration, community corrections, institutional corrections, and prisoner reentry. The authors focused specifically on the past 10 years and, with an eye toward mapping uncharted or underexplored territory, the authors offer directions for future research in these areas. Although it is impossible to provide a comprehensive roadmap for future corrections research, the authors hope to have identified sufficient new directions to further (and perhaps even complicate) understandings of corrections in the broader context of justice research. Abstract published by arrangement with Taylor and Francis.