Evaluation of Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative

Christy Visher
Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice;
Co-Director, Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, University of Delaware

Discussants will include:
Ari Wax
Assistant Commissioner of Program Management, Policy, and Planning;
New York City Department of Correction

Preliminary findings from the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) will be presented. The SVORI evaluation is a five-year multi-site evaluation of SVORI sites to determine whether these programs have accomplished the overall goals of the initiative and to determine the relative costs and benefits of the programs.