A government taskforce is reviewing post-release support for former inmates. They are considering cutting funding for a transitional employment scheme in favour of standard probation monitoring.
With reference to the key research by Gillis and Nafekh (2005), explain how employment programmes affect recidivism, and use this research to argue why maintaining funding for the transitional employment scheme would be beneficial.
7 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Effect of imprisonment (Social). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.