ABSTRACT
This groundbreaking edited volume evaluates prisoner reentry using a critical approach to demonstrate how the many issues surrounding reentry do not merely intersect but are in fact reinforcing and interdependent. The number of former incarcerated persons with a felony conviction living in the United States has grown significantly in the last decade, reaching into the millions. When men and women are released from prison, their journey encompasses a range of challenges that are unique to each individual, including physical and mental illnesses, substance abuse, gender identity, complicated family dynamics, the denial of rights, and the inability to voice their experiences about returning home.
Although scholars focus on the obstacles former prisoners encounter and how to reduce recidivism rates, the main challenge of prisoner reentry is how multiple interdependent issues overlap in complex ways. By examining prisoner reentry from various critical perspectives, this volume depicts how the carceral continuum, from incarceration to reentry, negatively impacts individuals, families, and communities; how the criminal justice system extends different forms of social control that break social networks; and how the shifting nature of prisoner reentry has created new and complicated obstacles to those affected by the criminal justice system. This volume explores these realities with respect to a range of social, community, political, and policy issues that former incarcerated persons must navigate to successfully reenter society.
A springboard for future critical research and policy discussions, this book will be of interest to U.S. and international researchers and practitioners interested in the topic of prisoner reentry, as well as graduate and upper-level undergraduate students concerned with contemporary issues in corrections, community-based corrections, critical issues in criminal justice, criminal justice policies, and reentry.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|68 pages
Institutions, Community, and Reentry
chapter Chapter 5|13 pages
Life Courses of Sex and Violent Offenders After Prison Release
section Section II|62 pages
Health, Embodiment, and Reentry
chapter Chapter 9|9 pages
Alcohol Use Disorder
chapter Chapter 10|12 pages
Carceral Calisthenics
section Section III|74 pages
Gender, Criminality, and Reentry
chapter Chapter 11|12 pages
Black Women Excluded From Protection and Criminalized for Their Existence
chapter Chapter 13|18 pages
An Intersectional Criminology Analysis of Black Women’s Collective Resistance
section Section IV|73 pages
Access, Rights, and Reentry
chapter Chapter 17|15 pages
Reentry in the Inland Empire
chapter Chapter 19|16 pages
Restoration of Voting Rights
section Section V|51 pages
Voices, Agency, and Reentry
section Section VI|74 pages
Activism, Liberation, and Reentry