Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner, Book
SKU: 9780367227227
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By Diana F. Johns
Copyright Year 2018
ORDER CODE: 9780367227227
Published February 4, 2019
250 Pages
Despite broad scholarship documenting the compounding effects and self-reproducing character of incarceration, ways of conceptualizing imprisonment and the post-prison experience have scarcely changed in over a century. Contemporary correctional thinking has congealed around notions of risk and management. This book aims to cast new light on men’s experience of release from prison.
Drawing on research conducted in Australia, it speaks to the challenges facing people leaving prison and seeking acceptance amongst the non-imprisoned around the world. Johns reveals the complexity of the post-prison experience, which is frequently masked by constructions of risk that individualize responsibility for reoffending and reimprisonment. This book highlights the important role of community in ex-prisoner integration, in providing opportunities for participation and acceptance. Johns shows that the process of becoming an ‘ex’-prisoner is not simply one of individual choice or larger structural forces, but occurs in the spaces in between.
Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner reveals the complex interplay between internal and external meanings and practices that causes men to feel neither locked up, nor wholly free. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in desistance, criminology, criminological or penological theory, sociology and qualitative research methods.
Table of Contents
1. What’s the post-release problem?
2. A catalogue of post-prison disadvantage
3. The post-release problem
4. Assemblage, culture, liminality
5. Phenomenography
6. Lived experience of release
7. Post-release support perspectives
8. Home, identity, connection
9. Being and becoming
Author(s)
Diana F. Johns is Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia
Copyright Year 2018
ORDER CODE: 9780367227227
Published February 4, 2019
250 Pages
Despite broad scholarship documenting the compounding effects and self-reproducing character of incarceration, ways of conceptualizing imprisonment and the post-prison experience have scarcely changed in over a century. Contemporary correctional thinking has congealed around notions of risk and management. This book aims to cast new light on men’s experience of release from prison.
Drawing on research conducted in Australia, it speaks to the challenges facing people leaving prison and seeking acceptance amongst the non-imprisoned around the world. Johns reveals the complexity of the post-prison experience, which is frequently masked by constructions of risk that individualize responsibility for reoffending and reimprisonment. This book highlights the important role of community in ex-prisoner integration, in providing opportunities for participation and acceptance. Johns shows that the process of becoming an ‘ex’-prisoner is not simply one of individual choice or larger structural forces, but occurs in the spaces in between.
Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner reveals the complex interplay between internal and external meanings and practices that causes men to feel neither locked up, nor wholly free. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in desistance, criminology, criminological or penological theory, sociology and qualitative research methods.
Table of Contents
1. What’s the post-release problem?
2. A catalogue of post-prison disadvantage
3. The post-release problem
4. Assemblage, culture, liminality
5. Phenomenography
6. Lived experience of release
7. Post-release support perspectives
8. Home, identity, connection
9. Being and becoming
Author(s)
Diana F. Johns is Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia
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