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“So, I Am Back”: Adjudicated Youths’ School Reentry Experiences, Inita S. Knox
“So, I Am Back”: Adjudicated Youths’ School Reentry Experiences, Inita S. Knox
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Adjudicated youth face a multitude of barriers when reentering school following incarceration. School administrators and educational personnel know very little about how these students perceive their reentry experiences and what the students identify as needed supports, resources, and barriers throughout the process. This qualitative study used in-depth, semi-structured interviews with photo-elicitation to explore and describe how formerly incarcerated youth perceive their high school reentry experiences. Participants were male adolescents ages 16 to 18 years old. who provided rich and in-depth descriptions of their reentry experiences. Recommendations for policy, practice and future research are provided.