New article on the importance of interventions during imprisonment
Education, treatment and work during imprisonment can strengthen labour market attachment after serving a sentence. This is according to a newly published article by Lena Roxell.
Photo: the Swedish Prison and Probation Service.
In the study, published in Nordisk tidsskrift for kriminalvidenskab, Roxell investigated whether education, treatment and work during imprisonment affect attachment to the labour market after release.
The results show that those who participated in any of the interventions were more likely to have a job after serving their prison sentence, compared to those who did not participate.
The significance of the programmes varied between genders and age groups. For the group of men and for the younger age group, people between 18 and 30 years of age, the programmes had the greatest significance for labour market attachment.
The Quantitative Criminology Research Group was established in 2022. An interest in quantitative methods in criminology – its possibilities and limitations – is what unites the group.
