Purpose

Marriage encourages desistance, yet how post-release marital transitions (i.e., marital formation and dissolution) impact reentry outcomes is not commonly studied. Romantic partnership formation and dissolution is even less frequently studied. Moreover, the impact of the quality of marital and serious romantic relationships has not yet been linked to reentry outcomes. We explore whether marriage, being in a relationship, and post-release marital and relationship transitions impact reincarceration.

Methods

Using data from the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative, we estimate a series of logistic regressions assessing whether post-release marital or relationship transitions, as well as relationship quality, influence the likelihood of reincarceration.

Results

We find that relationship quality, not marriage or relationship transitions, is associated with a lower likelihood of reincarceration. Being in any relationship, including a marriage, however, is associated with and increased likelihood of reincarceration.

Conclusion

Future research efforts should seek to shed additional light on how the reintegration process is affected by specific types of relationships and relationship transitions, as well as how relationship quality may mitigate negative reentry outcomes.

中文翻译：

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累犯和人际关系：研究人际关系，过渡和关系质量在重新监禁中的作用

目的

婚姻助长了戒欲，但通常不研究释放后的婚姻过渡（即婚姻形成和解散）如何影响再入结果。浪漫的伙伴关系的形成和消亡的频率甚至更低。此外，婚姻和认真的恋爱关系质量的影响尚未与再入结局联系在一起。我们探讨婚姻，处于婚姻关系中以及释放后的婚姻和关系转变是否会影响重新监禁。

方法

使用来自严重和暴力犯罪再入倡议的数据，我们估计了一系列逻辑回归，以评估释放后的婚姻或关系转变以及关系质量是否会影响重新监禁的可能性。

结果

我们发现，关系质量而不是婚姻或关系过渡与重新监禁的可能性较低有关。然而，处于任何关系中，包括婚姻，都与重新监禁有关，并增加了重新监禁的可能性。

结论

未来的研究工作应设法进一步阐明特定类型的关系和关系转换如何影响重新融合过程，以及关系质量如何减轻负面的再入成果。