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TY - JOUR
T1 - The value of finding employment for white-collar ex-offenders
T2 - A 20-year criminological follow-up
AU - Soothill, Keith
AU - Francis, Brian
AU - Ackerley, Elizabeth
PY - 1997/9/1
Y1 - 1997/9/1
N2 - The study describes a 20-year criminological follow-up of a consecutive series of 348 male ex-offenders seeking white-collar employment who were offered the services of a specialist employment agency (APEX) in the early 1970s. At the end of the 20-year follow-up, 36 per cent had been reconvicted. While only 30 per cent of those placed into employment were reconvicted compared with 42 per cent of the 'unplaced' group, this variation is explained by differences in the criminal history of the two groups. Hence, there is no evidence that the intervention of finding a job by APEX had been beneficial in reconviction terms. However, persons with three or more convictions on whom considerable placing effort had been expended - whether or not they were actually placed - did particularly well in avoiding reconviction. The interpretation is that placing effort is an indirect measure of an ex-offender's general motivation to stay out of trouble.
AB - The study describes a 20-year criminological follow-up of a consecutive series of 348 male ex-offenders seeking white-collar employment who were offered the services of a specialist employment agency (APEX) in the early 1970s. At the end of the 20-year follow-up, 36 per cent had been reconvicted. While only 30 per cent of those placed into employment were reconvicted compared with 42 per cent of the 'unplaced' group, this variation is explained by differences in the criminal history of the two groups. Hence, there is no evidence that the intervention of finding a job by APEX had been beneficial in reconviction terms. However, persons with three or more convictions on whom considerable placing effort had been expended - whether or not they were actually placed - did particularly well in avoiding reconviction. The interpretation is that placing effort is an indirect measure of an ex-offender's general motivation to stay out of trouble.
KW - white collar
KW - offenders
KW - recidivism
U2 - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a014199
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a014199
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:0039768864
VL - 37
SP - 582
EP - 592
JO - British Journal of Criminology
JF - British Journal of Criminology
SN - 0007-0955
IS - 4
ER -