MDTA Vocational Experimental-Demonstration Project for Training and Placement of Youthful Offenders; Community Sponsorship Program

1967 ◽  
Home Free ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
David S. Kirk

The Epilogue takes the policy discussion a step further, describing an experimental demonstration project that uses housing subsidies to incentivize recently released prisoners to move to new cities. This demonstration project, which is called the Maryland Opportunities through Vouchers Experiment, or MOVE for short, was designed to determine if residential change, in this case induced through a real-world housing intervention, might yield the same reductions in recidivism that the moves from Hurricane Katrina produced. Thus, the book ends with a discussion of how the lessons of a unique but tragic natural experiment might be put to use to lower criminal recidivism. The Epilogue describes pilot results which suggest that residential relocation, along with stable housing, can yield significant reductions in the likelihood of criminal recidivism.


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