Britani Holland, MSW, LCSW, a PhD student in the School of Social Work, shared preliminary findings of a national survey exploring the support for and willingness to pay for programming and reentry services aimed at reducing recidivism among criminal offenders with adverse childhood experience at the 2023 American Society of Criminology (ASC) Annual Meeting.
"The conference was wonderful, and I learned a lot," said Holland. "It was a wonderful opportunity to represent USF's School of Social Work and this incredible research team."
Holland attends the ASC conference in Philadelphia.
The project is funded by the USF Interdisciplinary Research Grant, and Holland is working with School of Social Work Associate Professor Sondra Fogel, PhD, and Department of Criminology faculty John Cochran, PhD, and Jessica Grosholz, PhD.
The team collected data about participants' authoritarian and social dominance beliefs, level of support for prison and post-prison services, empathy levels, stigma about offenders, and other characteristics. They found that almost all dependent variables were significantly correlated with participants' willingness to pay for services.
Holland and the team of faculty researchers plan to look at correlations between participants' sociodemographics and attitudes, complete multivariate modeling, and replicate all of the analyses with their front-end data.