Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2016
Journal Title
Urban Lawyer
ISBN
0042-0905
Abstract
Part I of this Article begins with a brief historical explanation of halfway houses as a model of criminal rehabilitation. Part II addresses why recidivism rates provide the most appropriate metric gauging halfway houses' success and how they apparently have failed to improve recidivism rates. Part III then delves into the body of scholarship that explains how an individual's likelihood of landing back behind bars is to some extent demonstrably tied to their location, meaning their surrounding cultural, economic, and criminogenic environment. Part IV discusses the sparse data on the sorts of neighborhoods where halfway houses ultimately end up and how local opposition typically relegates these facilities to disadvantaged neighborhoods. Finally, Part V wraps up the Article by calling on lawmakers to take steps to give corrections agencies the zoning exemptions they need to put halfway houses in neighborhoods more conducive to criminal rehabilitation--with or without, though optimally with, local blessings.
First Page
329
Last Page
363
Num Pages
35
Issue Number
2
Publisher
American Bar Association
Recommended Citation
Michael J. McGowan,
Location, Location, Mis-Location: How Local Land Use Restrictions Are Dulling Halfway Housing's Criminal Rehabilitation Potentia,
48
Urb. Law.
329
(2016).
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FIle Type
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