The Impact of Incarceration on Young Offender Recidivism



The Impact of Incarceration on Young Offender Recidivism

Kristy N. Matsuda

Department of Criminology, Law and Society

University of California, Irvine

General Areas of Interest:

Juvenile delinquency

Juvenile justice

Gangs/ Disruptive youth groups

Prison gangs

Corrections

Inmate violence

Current Research:

The purpose of my dissertation research is to study the effect that incarceration in state run facilities has on youth in California This research compares like-age (i.e., 16-25 years old at release) offenders that were incarcerated in either a state-run juvenile facility or an adult state prison. I test the impact of both facility level and individual level variables on the youths’ likelihood of recommitment to a state institution. Unlike prior research, this study is not limited to examining the impact of one prison or one juvenile facility on the offenders. Instead, it tracks thousands of inmates on a new admission from the start date of confinement until their release, and measures the environments of all the state-run facilities to which youth were exposed during their sentence.

Publications:

Matsuda, K.N. (forthcoming) Families and Delinquency. In The Encyclopedia of Race and Crime. Sage Publications

Jenness, V., Maxson, C.L., Matsuda, K.N., and Sumner, J.M. (2007). Violence in California Correctional Facilities: An Empirical Examination of Sexual Assault. A report to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Irvine: Center for Evidence-Based Corrections.

Sumner, J.M. and Matsuda, K.M. (2006) Shining Light in Dark Corners: An Overview of Prison Rape Legislation and an Introduction to Current Research. Bulletin for the Center for Evidence-Based Corrections. . University of California Irvine.

Other:

• Awarded a National Institute of Justice Dissertation Fellowship (Awarded to only five graduate students nationwide in 2007)

• A project manager for multi-year, study Violence in California Correctional Facilities, funded by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

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