Criminal Justice Leaving prison? Dial down the aspirations, don't try to be lawyers or doctors, survey respondents say
Image from Shutterstock.com. Should former prisoners pursue prestigious careers and home ownership? A survey suggests that people think the American dream should be more limited for this group of people. The online survey of 637 people divided the respondents into nine groups, with each one getting a different profile of a fictional person. Some of the fictional people had spent time in prison, and some had not. The February 2020 survey, posted Monday at SSRN, then asked about what type of aspirations the different fictional people should have.