Visitation and post-release outcome among federally-sentenced offenders : Visites et les résultats postlibératoires parmi les délinquants purgeant une peine de ressort fédéral

While the frequency of visits did not impact the number of institutional misconducts, the number of visitors positively influenced both parole planning and the likelihood of being paroled. [...] Demographic and Control Variables Given that the analyses conducted in this investigation aimed to identify the association of visitation with recidivism, independent of differences between offenders, it was important that a number of the factors associated with inter-offender differences be statistically controlled in the analyses. [...] Second, the number of visits and the number of 4 It should be noted that the releases used to establish this study cohort were the first within the 2005-06 fiscal year, but were not necessarily the offenders’ first releases overall. [...] This means that the patterns of association between the visitation and post-release outcome variables used in this study are not influenced by the gender of the offender. [...] This procedure allowed for the identification of any unique effects of visitation on post-release outcome after accounting for the influence of each of the control variables.