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Abstract This study compared adult releasees who had vocational, or vocational and academic training, to a control group of releasees who chose not to enroll in vocational or academic training. A fourth group, those releasees who received only academic coursework while incarcerated, was also studied. A total of 760 releasees was studied for 12 months. Violation/nonviolation was the independent variable. It was cross tabulated with fourteen independent variables, focusing especially on education and/or vocational program involvement while incarcerated. Violation was defined as "returned to prison because of parole violation," "committing a new crime" (also resulting in parole violation), or "being absent without permission" (nlso a parole violation). Chi- square analysis indicated that seeking and obtaining a job was essential to remaining on parole. Parolees who had no prior documented history of abusing alcohol or drugs were more successful on community release. Other important background characteristics related to success on parole were being married, participating in academic and vocational programs while incarcerated, being a non-minority nationality, and being a first time offender.
Anderson et al. (Wed,) studied this question.