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Parolees are likely to recidivate because they have risk factors that predispose them to crimes (e.g., youth, broken family), and their incarceration weakened such protective factors as health and family relations. This study examines another risk factor for parolees, the economic resources present in neighborhoods in which they reside post-release. Neighborhood poverty has been shown to encourage crime and increase levels of social disorganization, yet there is little consensus on the definition of poverty. This study examines three different types of poverty absolute poverty, relative deprivation, and diffusion and their relation to recidivism rates and individual parolees recidivism throughout Metropolitan Atlanta. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]