WELCOME TO THE PRISON PROJECT WEBSITE.

The Prison Project is a large-scale longitudinal research project examining the effects of imprisonment on the further life course of offenders and their families. Males who were put in pre-trial detention in all remand centers in the Netherlands between October 2010 and April 2011 were asked to participate in the study. Respondents who participated in our study were followed for four years, and questioned repeatedly regarding their lives before, during and after imprisonment. In this way, elaborate information was gathered on multiple life domains (e.g. criminal behavior, employment, housing situation, social networks, health, wellbeing of family members). In addition, officially registered data - e.g. on their criminal behavior, participation in behavioral interventions, and disciplinary infractions during their time in prison - were collected.

In 2017 The Prison Project received the Correctional Research Award 2017 of the 'International Correctional and Probation Association' (ICPA).

On this website you can find information about the research, our research team and the publications.

The Prison Project is a joint project of the University of Leiden, the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and the University of Utrecht. It is funded by the Dutch Organization of Scientific Research (NWO), the NSCR and the Universities of Leiden and Utrecht.

Collaboration
The Prison Project has an open policy regarding collaboration with other researchers. If you are interested in working with Prison Project data you can contact one of the principal investigators.

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