Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Foreword: the correctional dilemma: employment and social integration / Jess Maghan -- Preface -- Pre-imprisonment employment: introduction -- Behind the practioner's desk: prosecutors, jobs and crime / Douglas S. Weiner -- The employment status dichotomy: understanding what this means and using it for your advantage in program development / Adam M. Bossler -- Economic rehabilitation: a reassessment of the link between employment and crime / Jessie L. Krienert and Mark S. Fleisher -- Prison industries: introduction -- Behind the practioner's desk: something.

Behind the practioner's desk: Illinois criminal justice information authority / Candice M. Kane -- Jabbing blow, pitching rocks, and stacking paper: how drug-selling street gangs organize the reentry of male ex-convicts into the community / Gregory S. Scott -- Work as a turning point for criminal offenders / Christopher Uggen and Jeremy Staff -- In the community: introduction -- Behind the practioner's desk: opportunity provision in the context of merging science and community-based best practice / Daniel J. Flannery -- Finding ways to get paid: social networks and illegitimate work / Norman A. White -- Drug selling: a rational choice / Mark S. Fleisher and Jessie L. Krienert.