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SVORI Reports:
  • Pre-release Characteristics and Service Receipt among Adult Male Participants in the SVORI Multi-site Evaluation - Provides findings from our initial in-prison interviews with SVORI participants and comparison respondents describing their characteristics, the services they reported needing, and the services they reported receiving prior to release.
    • [August 2008]

  • National Portrait of SVORI - The SVORI Multi-site Evaluation's preliminary assessment of all 69 sites funded under the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative
    • [July 2004]

    SVORI Journal Articles:
  • Study Examines Prisoners' Reentry Needs in the April 2008 issue of Corrections Today [April 2008]

  • Major Study Examines Prisoners and Their Reentry Needs in the NIJ Journal [October 2007]

  • The Challenges of Reentry in Corrections Today [April 2007]

  • The Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative: Measuring the Effects on Service Delivery in Western Criminology Review [August 2006]

  • SVORI Evaluates the Effectiveness of Re-Entry Programs from the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services System Newsletter
    • [August 2006]

    Reentry Research in Action Briefs:
  • Enrollment Issues among SVORI Program--UPDATE - a three page brief summarizing issues surrounding enrollment in SVORI programs and is an update of an earlier brief on the same topic that used information from the 2005 PD survey only. [March 2008]

  • Reentry Research in Action: Sustaining Juvenile Reentry Programming after SVORI - a four page brief presenting results from the 2006 Program Director survey for juvenile programs regarding systems change, sustainability strategies, components to be maintained, and factors essential to bringing reentry programming "to scale". [June 2007]

  • Reentry Research in Action: Sustaining Adult Reentry Programming after SVORI - a four page brief presenting results from the 2006 Program Director survey for adult programs regarding systems change, sustainability strategies, components to be maintained, and factors essential to bringing reentry programming "to scale".[June 2007]

  • Reentry Research in Action: Approach for Conducting Cost, Cost-Effectiveness, and Benefit-Cost Analyses of SVORI Programs - a four page brief providing an overview of the economic component of the SVORI Multi-site Evaluation [November 2006]

  • Reentry Research in Action: Enrollment Issues among SVORI Programs - a two page brief highlighting enrollment issues among the SVORI programs, including differences between expected and actual enrollment and enrollment barriers encountered [April 2006]

  • Reentry Research in Action: Evaluation Design Overview - a two page brief highlighting the SVORI Multi-site Evaluation design [March 2006]

  • Reentry Research in Action: Overview of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative - a two page brief giving an overview of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative [January 2006]

  • Reentry Research in Action: Sustainability of SVORI Programs - a two page brief outlining sustainability plans and efforts among the SVORI programs [December 2005]

  • Reentry Research In Action: Implementation of SVORI Programs - A two page brief about the implementation of SVORI programs, including their current status and barriers encountered [October 2005]

  • Reentry Research In Action: Characteristics of Prisoner Reentry Programs for Juveniles - A four page brief highlighting various dimensions of SVORI programs exclusively serving juveniles [October 2005]

  • Reentry Research In Action: Faith-Based Involvement - A two page brief about the role of faith-based organizations in the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative [July 2005]

  • Reentry Research In Action: Characteristics of Prisoner Reentry Programs - A two page brief highlighting general characteristics of programs funded by the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative [July 2005]


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