Symposium panelists will present findings that suggest that (1) higher levels of state-level economic strain and social exclusion, measured by affordable housing scarcity, public benefit usage, and state fiscal health, play a role in the likelihood that state legislators will adopt harsh collateral sanction policies over time; (2) neighborhood disadvantage, disorder, residential mobility, and ethnoracial diversity have exponentially greater effects on the hazard of recidivating for a cohort of probationers with lower individual criminal propensity scores, than those with higher criminal propensity scores; (3) for a sample of marginalized women under criminal justice supervision, the objectifying language of �offender� and �perpetrator� relegates them to categories of �the unredeemed� and impedes their ability to create new, healthy narratives for themselves that incorporate their strengths and potential for lasting identity transformation; and that (4) despite mounting support for �Ban the Box� policies, private sector employers' concerns about risk and liability still lead to criminogenic job search failures and exacerbate individual desistance efforts.
Each panelist will also provide evidence-based implications for social work theory, research, and practice, as well as recommendations for PSDI-related policy.