Prisoner reentry in the 21st century : critical perspectives of returning home / [edited by] Keesha M. Middlemass & Calvin John Smiley (2024)

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• Innovations in corrections

Contents:

Introduction: Critical reentry in the 21st century / Keesha M. Middlemass and CalvinJohn Smiley -- Section I. Institutions, community, and reentry. Halfway home : the thin line between abstinence and the drug crisis / Liam Martin ; Triaging rehabilitation : the retreat of state-funded prison programming / Allison Gorga ; The state's accomplices? : organizations and the penal state / Nicole Kaufman ; Idaho : a case study in rural reentry / Dierdre Caputo-Levine ; Life courses of sex and violent offenders after prison release : the interaction between individual and community-related factors / Gunda Woessner, Kira-Sophie Gauder and David Czudnochowski -- Section II. Health, embodiment, and reentry. Mothers returning home : a critical intersectional approach to reentry / Rebecca Reviere, Vernetta D. Young and Akiv Dawson ; Release from long-term restrictive housing / Linda Carson ; Resilient roads and the non-prison model for women / L. Susan Williams, Edward L.W. Green and Katrina M. Lewis ; Alcohol use disorder : programs and treatment for offenders reentering the community / Sara Buck Doude and Jessica J. Sparks ; Carceral calisthenics : (body) building a resilient self and transformative reentry movement / Albert de la Tierra -- Section III. Gender, criminality, and reentry. Black women excluded from protection and criminalized for their existence / Keesha M. Middlemass ; The gendered challenges of prisoner reentry / Haley Zettler ; An intersectional criminology analysis of black women's collective resistance / Nishaun T. Battle and Jason M. Williams ; Gender differences in programmatic needs for juveniles / Laurin Parker and Kylie Parrotta ; Prison is a place to teach us things we've never learned in life / Breea Willingham -- Section IV. Access, rights, and reentry. "...except sex offenders" : registering sexual harm in the age of #MeToo / David Booth ; Reentry in the Inland Empire : the prison to college pipeline with Project Rebound / Annika Yvette Anderson, Paul Andrew Jones and Carolyn Anne McAllister ; The politics of restoring voting rights after incarceration / Taneisha N. Means and Alexandra Hatch ; Restoration of voting rights : returning citizens and the Florida electorate / Keneshia Grant ; Perpetual punishment : one man's journey post-incarceration / Tomas R. Montalvo and Jennifer Marie Ortiz -- Section V. Voices, agency, and reentry. Thoughts, concerns, and the reality of incarcerated women / CalvinJohn Smiley, Keesha M. Middlemass and incarderated women ; Reflections on reentry : voices from the ID13 Prison Literacy Project / Halle M. Neidermann, Christopher P. Dum and the ID13 Prison Literacy Project ; Being held at Rikers, waiting to go Upstate / Marques M. ; Reentry, from my perspective / Abdul-Halim N. Shahid ; The journey of a Black man enveloped in poverty / Steven Pacheco ; My first 24 hours after being released / Jose Lumbreras -- Section VI. Activism, liberation, and reentry. Money for freedom : cash bail, incarceration, and reentry / CalvinJohn Smiley ; Agents of change in healing our communities / Liza Chowdhury, Jason Davis and Dedric "Beloved" Hammond ; Rehabilitation is reentry : breathing space, a product of inmate dreams / Robert Garot ; Making good one semester at a time : formerly incarcerated students (and their professor) consider the redemptive power of inclusive education / James M. Binnall, Irene Sotelo, Adrian Vasquez and Joe Louis Hernandez ; "I can't depend on no reentry program!" : street-identified Black men's critical reflections on prison reentry / Yasser Arafat Payne, Tara Marie Brown and Corry Wright -- Conclusion: What's next for critical reentry / CalvinJohn Smiley and Keesha M. Middlemass.

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"--

Subject(s):

• 2000-2099
• Prisoners—Deinstitutionalization—United States—History—21st century
• Ex-convicts—United States—Social conditions—21st century
• Recidivism—United States—Prevention—History—21st century
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
• Ex-convicts—Social conditions
• Prisoners—Deinstitutionalization
• Recidivism—Prevention
• United States

Genre(s):

• History

ISBN:

9781351138246 (ebook)
1351138243 (ebook)
9781351138239 (electronic bk. : PDF)
1351138235 (electronic bk. : PDF)
9781351138222 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
1351138227 (electronic bk. : EPUB)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biographical or Historical Sketch:

Keesha M. Middlemass, Ph.D., is an associate professor of public policy in the Department of Political Science at Howard University in Washington, D.C. She specializes in studying race, reentry, food insecurity, and public policies using interdisciplinary frameworks to integrate knowledge from different disciplines and across multiple data sources, including participant observations, in-depth interviews, focus groups, policy analysis, and archival research. Her most recent book, Convicted & Condemned: The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry, won the W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award in 2018. Her research is also published in Public Health Nutrition, International Journal of Eating Disorders, Aggressive Behavior, Criminal Justice & Behavior, The Prison Journal, and Punishment & Society. Dr. Middlemass is a member of the Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network, a former Andrew Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow on Race, Crime and Justice at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City, and a former American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. Dr. Middlemass earned her Ph.D. in public policy, American politics, and public administration from The School of Public & International Affairs at the University of Georgia. CalvinJohn Smiley, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology at Hunter College-City of New York (CUNY). He specializes in studying race, reentry, and citizenship. His work is published in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as: The Prison Journal, Race Ethnicity and Education, Punishment & Society, Deviant Behavior, Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, and Contemporary Justice Review. He is currently working on a book manuscript based on his research on reentry that explores the various ways men and women navigate the reentry process with diminished legal rights and amplified social stigmas. His future work will investigate the role of human and nonhuman interactions, particularly in carceral settings (e.g., prison-based animal therapy programs). Dr. Smiley is a member of American Sociological Association, American Society of Criminology, and Kappa Alpha Psi Inc. He is the Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Association on Corrections. Dr. Smiley earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center.

Endowment Note:

James F. Robb Fund