Prisoner reentry in the 21st century : critical perspectives of returning home / [edited by] Keesha M. Middlemass & Calvin John Smiley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Middlemass, Keesha, editor.

Smiley, CalvinJohn, editor.

Series:

Innovations in corrections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Deinstitutionalization--United States--History--21st century.

Prisoners.

Ex-convicts--United States--Social conditions--21st century.

Ex-convicts.

Recidivism--United States--Prevention--History--21st century.

Recidivism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"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, the 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. While 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction: Critical Reentry in the 21st Century

Section I Institutions, Community, and Reentry

1 Halfway Home: The Thin Line Between Abstinence and the Drug Crisis

2 Triaging Rehabilitation: The Retreat of State-Funded Prison Programming

3 The State's Accomplices? Organizations and the Penal State

4 Idaho: A Case Study in Rural Reentry

5 Life Courses of Sex and Violent Offenders After Prison Release: The Interaction Between Individual- and Community-Related Factors

Section II Health, Embodiment, and Reentry

6 Mothers Returning Home: A Critical Intersectional Approach to Reentry

7 Release From Long-Term Restrictive Housing

8 Resilient Roads and the Non-Prison Model for Women

9 Alcohol Use Disorder: Programs and Treatment for Offenders Reentering the Community

10 Carceral Calisthenics: (Body) Building a Resilient Self and Transformative Reentry Movement

Section III Gender, Criminality, and Reentry

11 Black Women Excluded From Protection and Criminalized for Their Existence

12 The Gendered Challenges of Prisoner Reentry

13 An Intersectional Criminology Analysis of Black Women's Collective Resistance

14 Gender Differences in Programmatic Needs for Juveniles

15 Prison Is a Place to Teach Us the Things We've Never Learned in Life

Section IV Access, Rights, and Reentry

16 ". . . Except Sex Offenders": Registering Sexual Harm in the Age of #MeToo

17 Reentry in the Inland Empire: The Prison to College Pipeline With Project Rebound

18 The Politics of Restoring Voting Rights After Incarceration

19 Restoration of Voting Rights: Returning Citizens and the Florida Electorate

20 Perpetual Punishment: One Man's Journey Post-Incarceration.

Section V Voices, Agency, and Reentry

21 Thoughts, Concerns, and the Reality of Incarcerated Women

22 Reflections on Reentry: Voices From the ID13 Prison Literacy Project

23 Being Held at Rikers, Waiting to Go Upstate

24 Reentry, From My Perspective

25 The Journey of a Black Man Enveloped in Poverty

26 My First 24 Hours After Being Released

Section VI Activism, Liberation, and Reentry

27 Money for Freedom: Cash Bail, Incarceration, and Reentry

28 Agents of Change in Healing Our Communities

29 Rehabilitation Is Reentry: Breathing Space, a Product of Inmate Dreams

30 Making Good One Semester at a Time: Formerly Incarcerated Students (and Their Professor) Consider the Redemptive Power of Inclusive Education

31 "I Can't Depend on No Reentry Program!": Street-Identified Black Men's Critical Reflections on Prison Reentry

Conclusion: What's Next for Critical Reentry

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-13823-5

1-351-13822-7

1-351-13824-3

9781351138246

OCLC:

1126348727