Gillis and Nafekh- employment programmes

Participants?

• Compared 2 groups of Canadian offenders. One group had been on a prison employment programme, the other had not.

• Participants were matched on gender, risk level, family and substance abuse.

• 95% male, 5% female

• Participants data was collected from Canada’s offender management system and data from 23,525 prisoners were collected.

Results?

• Showed that 70% of the prisoners on the employment programme did not reoffend, while 55% of the non-programme prisoners didnt reoffend.

• For the criminals who did reoffend, it took on average 37 months to do s if they were on the employment programme while the non-programme criminals took an average of just 11 month to reoffend.

Conclusion?

That a planned programme that allows prisoners to work is one way of reducing reoffending rates.

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