Transitional Aid Research Project (TARP), 1976-1977

• NCJ Number: 96067
• Author(s): P H Rossi; R A Berk; K J Lenihan
• Date Published: 1982
• Length: 906 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This codebook presents the forms used and data collected in the Transitional Aid Research Project (TARP) conducted in Texas and Georgia using prisoners released between July 1, 1973, and June 30, 1974.

Abstract

TARP is based on a smaller study in Baltimore, Md., which indicated that ex-prisoners receiving payments were less likely to be rearrested for property crimes than those who received only job placement or no services of payments of any kind. Data are available on 1,975 Texas parolees and 2,007 Georgia parolees. Released prisoners were assigned to six groups using a stratified random procedure. Four groups consisted of those who received 26 weeks payment and 100-percent tax, 13-weeks payment and 100-percent tax, 13-weeks payment and 25-percent tax, and job placement only. The remaining two groups contained interviewed controls and noninterviewed controls. Nine data files cover prison history; prerelease interviews; 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month interviews; payment summary; and wage, arrest, parole, job market, and workfile data. A card image file contains several decks per case; the OSIRIS dataset is included, along with the variable description list.