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But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry
12 Apr 2005-
TL;DR: Travis as mentioned in this paper proposes organizing the criminal justice system around five principles of reentry to encourage change and spur innovation, and argues that the impact of returning prisoners on families and communities has been largely overlooked.
Abstract: As our justice system has embarked upon one of our time's greatest social experiments?responding to crime by expanding prisons?we have forgotten the iron law of imprisonment: they all come back. In 2002, more than 630,000 individuals left federal and state prisons. Thirty years ago, only 150,000 did. In the intense political debate over America's punishment policies, the impact of these returning prisoners on families and communities has been largely overlooked. In But They All Come Back, Jeremy Travis continues his pioneering work on the new realities of punishment in America vis-a-vis public safety, families and children, work, housing, public health, civic identity, and community capacity. Travis proposes organizing the criminal justice system around five principles of reentry to encourage change and spur innovation.
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TL;DR: Scholarship suggests that prison visitation is beneficial and may be especially so for children and their incarcerated parents as discussed by the authors, however, economically disadvantaged families face unique challenges and may not be able to afford it.
Abstract: Scholarship suggests that prison visitation is beneficial and may be especially so for children and their incarcerated parents. However, economically disadvantaged families face unique chal...
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...…less likely to be visited, given that their social ties are likely to be facing similar economic disadvantages and so struggle to obtain resources necessary to successfully visit (Christian et al., 2006; Mauer & Chesney-Lind, 2002; Pleggenkuhle et al., 2018; Travis, 2005; Turney & Schneider, 2016)....
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TL;DR: There is a growing U.S. national consensus that with proper attention to the policies that drive the size of prison populations, these populations can be reduced as discussed by the authors, and several states have reduced pri...
Abstract: There is a growing U.S. national consensus that with proper attention to the policies that drive the size of prison populations, these populations can be reduced. As several states have reduced pri...
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...Numerous studies have examined the nexus between parole release, conditions of that release, and the impact on parolees’ rearrest rates (for reviews of this material, see Petersilia, 2003; Travis, 2005)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the embodied experience of reentry in a halfway house and interviews with former prisoners is studied. But the authors treat prison release as a s... and do not consider the psychological aspects of re-entry.
Abstract: This paper draws on nine months of ethnographic research living in a halfway house and interviews with former prisoners to theorize the embodied experience of reentry. I treat prison release as a s...
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...…neighborhoods were resources and opportunities are scarce (Clear 2007), and carry criminal records that trigger further “invisible punishments” (Travis 2005), formal barriers that can mean exclusion from employment, voting, public and private housing, social welfare, and student loans…...
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...…burgeoning field of reentry research identifies an array of challenges facing those transitioning out of prison, including reconnecting with family (Martinez and Christian 2009), finding housing (Travis 2005), accessing health services (Thompson 2009), and gaining employment (Solomon et al. 2004)....
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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: Grazian et al. as discussed by the authors conducted a year-long participant observation and interview case study of a street level bureaucracy focused on prisoner reentry in a large northeastern city and found that the response to limited resources was typically to focus on its legitimating function and its survival, which superseded its service provision function, where resources were rationed, or its public safety function, which was largely nominal.
Abstract: The following manuscript is the result of a year length intensive participant observation and interview case study of a street level bureaucracy focused on prisoner reentry in a large northeastern city. I use the pseudonym Afterward for this bureaucracy. What goes on in prisoner reentry bureaucracies is determined a great deal by their surrounding social context, and the life-courses of the individuals who seek out these bureaucracies for their services. The macro issues of urban poverty, the labor market, politics, and racial stratification meet with the micro level issues of client and staff accumulated experiences, perspectives, and emotions, in the context of a meso-level public bureaucracy. Both the clients and the organization that I studied had limited resources. For Afterward, its response to limited resources was typically to focus on its legitimating function and its survival, which I argue superseded its service provision function, where resources were rationed, or its public safety function, which was largely nominal. Additionally, both clients and staff at afterward were actively engaged in social interaction organized for the purpose of construction of narratives of agency. The social construction of agency, however, is often not enough to prevent any client from returning to prison or jail. Moreover, clients go to obtain jobs through Afterward, but then their wages received through formal paycheck may also be garnished in order to pay for outstanding court costs and fines. Afterward is also part of a broader project of surveillance and control. Afterward provides much needed services, but is also part of punitive carceral continuum. In the context of the physical office space of Afterward there is a great deal of monitoring of clients based off of the presumption that they are a violent threat. Additionally, Afterward regularly coordinated with other criminal justice bureaucracies in the monitoring of its clients. In my final chapter, I combine a number of themes to focus on the small group of African American women clients of Afterward, with a special focus on the looming punitive role of the foster care system as well as the gendered significance of interpersonal violence and victimization. Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Graduate Group Sociology First Advisor David Grazian
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