Abstract
Virtual Reality Job Interview Training (VR-JIT) has increased employment rates for returning citizens when added to a successful prison-based employment readiness program. However, implementation preparation cost—expenses prior to offering VR-JIT to intended recipients—is unknown. We estimated the cost of implementation preparation activities (e.g., organizing workflow) for two prisons to deliver VR-JIT. We conducted a budget impact analysis and enumerated the labor costs incurred during this important stage of implementation. Labor costs were approximately $8,847 per prison. Our sensitivity analysis estimated the labor costs to replicate this effort in a new prison to range from $2,877 to $4,306 per prison. Thus, VR-JIT may be an affordable tool for prison-based employment readiness programs to improve gainful employment.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 81-97 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Journal of Offender Rehabilitation |
Volume | 62 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2023 |
Funding
This work was supported by the National Institute of Justice under Grant [2019-MU-MU-004; PI: Matthew Smith]; and the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research under Grant [90ARHF0003].
Keywords
- budget impact analysis
- implementation preparation
- recidivism
- virtual reality job interview training
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Law
- Rehabilitation