11. Improving Employment Prospects for Former Prison Inmates

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research vi
3. Contents vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Economical Crime Control 1
6. I. Criminal Justice Reform
7. 1. The Deterrent Effect of Imprisonment 43
8. 2. Institutional Requirements for Effective Imposition of Fines 95
9. 3. If Drug Treatment Works So Well, Why Are So Many Drug Users in Prison? 125
10. 4. Mental Health Treatment and Criminal Justice Outcomes 167
11. II. Regulation of Criminal Opportunities and Criminogenic Commodities
12. 5. Rethinking America’s Illegal Drug Policy 215
13. 6. Alcohol Regulation and Crime 291
14. 7. The Role of Private Action in Controlling Crime 331
15. III. Social Policy
16. 8. Decreasing Delinquency, Criminal Behavior, and Recidivism by Intervening on Psychological Factors Other Than Cognitive Ability 367
17. 9. Family Income, Neighborhood Poverty, and Crime 419
18. 10. Education Policy and Crime 465
19. 11. Improving Employment Prospects for Former Prison Inmates 521
20. 12. Crime and the Family 573
21. Contributors 603
22. Author Index 607
23. Subject Index 619