Abstract
ABSTRACT This study investigated recidivism among 480 male graduates, aged 16 to 40 years, of a boot camp in the south. Recidivism was defined as days survived in the community without returning to the Department of Correction (DOC) in a 3-year follow-up study. Fifty-eight percent returned to the DOC during the study period. Predictors included sociodemographic variables, scales on the Jesness Inventory, self-esteem, resilience, peer association and influence, future expectations, and several factors relating to perceptions of the boot camp experience. Among the strongest predictors of recidivism were inmates' perceptions of boot camp as merely an expedient avenue to early release, future expectations of success, resilience, and several personality traits measured by the Jesness Inventory in addition to more commonly used measures of age at first arrest, prior criminal history, and peer association and influence. Implications of the findings for policy and decision-making were discussed.
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