May 2003

The Youth Reentry Roundtable sought to generate a national discussion about the unique challenges involved in reintegrating young people back into their families and communities after a period of incarceration and to offer policymakers an opportunity to develop effective programs and policies to improve the reentry process.

Publication

The Youth Dimensions of Prisoner Reentry: Youth Development and the Impact of Incarceration and Reentry

Commissioned papers for the Roundtable
All commissioned papers were published in the January 2004 issue of Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice (Vol. 2, no. 1, Sage Publications, Inc.)

Reentry of Young Offenders from the Justice System: A Developmental Perspective (Laurence Steinberg, He Len Chung, and Michelle Little)

An Empirical Portrait of the Youth Reentry Population (Howard Snyder)

Youth Perspectives on the Experience of Reentry (Mercer Sullivan)

Adolescent and Teenage Offenders Confronting the Challenges and Opportunities of Reentry (David Altschuler and Rachel Brash)

Interventions and Services Offered to Former Juvenile Offenders Re-Entering Their Communities: An Analysis of Program Effectiveness (Margaret Beale Spencer and Cheryl Jones-Walker)

This Roundtable was funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the California Endowment.