Gender Differences On he Road to Redemption

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Introduction
The journal article “Gender Differences on the Road to Redemption” is part of redemption research concerned with assessing the length of time it takes for an offender to be considered as “redeemed” from his/her crimes. This state of redemption means that it is when an offender can be comparable to a non-offender, also noting that the one who had already committed a crime has an equal risk level as to someone who has not done any criminal act. This article by Gina Curcio, April Pattavina, and William Fisher aims to determine whether gender differences influence the years to redemption and whether the number of years that is provided in previous research will be identical with the study. In addition to this, the article also aims to explore the different factors involved to reach the redemption point. The results of this research study are highly applicable to the formation of policies and regulations involved in the employment process, which may lead to the dismissal of using criminal records as one of the bases in an employment application.
The data set used in the research study is from the ongoing compilation from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics that was actually for the collection of information regarding the notable life events and labor market activities of certain groups of people, both males, and females. The age group of the people included in the data collection ranges from 12 to 16 years old during the first interview session, reaching up to 27 to 31 years old at the time of the latest available interview session on the data set. Most of the independent variables in the study are those factors that were included in previous redemption research. These include significant life milestones, education level, and the presence of previous arrests.
The study used an analytic approach to handling the data set available. The split sample analyses were used to determine the relationship between the independent variables and their influence on gender. The survival analysis was used in modeling time to arrest or rearrest. The discrete survival model was also used in the study for the hazard probabilities throughout the years that the study is being assessed. In all these approaches, a separate examination was done to compare males and females, on top of the general analyses conducted as a whole. Given the stated goals of the research concerning the factors that influence the number of years that it takes to reach the point of redemption, the logistic regression analysis is utilized to identify the various predictive factors and traits of those individuals in the data set that is able to reach redemption without experiencing an arrest. However, it should be noted that this analysis was used on those participants who already had a prior arrest recorded at baseline, so the variable that is observed is particularly whether a rearrest will happen among those participants before reaching the goal of redemption.
The results of the study reveal that females take fewer years in reaching the said point of redemption in comparison to their male counte...