THE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS: DO AGE AND CRIMINAL HISTORY AFFECT TIME TO REDEMPTION?*

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A Signaling Perspective on Employment-Based Reentry Programming Training Completion as a Desistance Signal (2012, unknown): “Bushway et al. (2011) used individuals with serious criminal histories and found similarly dramatic reductions in risk, although the risk may not decline to that of nonoffenders. among individuals with criminal histories, although in this case it takes at least 7 years of waiting before the…”
Rehabilitation: Beyond Nothing Works (2013, background): “…agenda: First, longitudinal studies are demonstrating empirically how long an offender must abstain from offending before the risk of recidivism is eliminated (or falls below the average level of the general public; see, e.g., Blumstein and Nakamura 2009; Bushway, Nieuwbeerta, and Blokland 2011).”
Reductions in Risk Based on Time Offense-Free in the Community: Once a Sexual Offender, Not Always a Sexual Offender (2017, background): “These propensities can also be inferred by statistical studies of cohorts over time (Blumstein & Nakamura, 2009; Bushway et al., 2011; Hargreaves & Francis, 2014; Soothill & Francis, 2009).”