(Re)entry from the Bottom Up: Case Study of a Critical Approach to Assisting Women Coming Home from Prison

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dc.creatorBurch, Melissa
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-12T13:04:05Z
dc.date.available2017-04-12T13:04:05Z
dc.date.issued2016-10
dc.description.abstractDespite decades of critical reframings, policy and practice on prisoner (re)entry often remains situated within a framework of individual responsibility that fails to acknowledge the structural drivers of criminalization. Attending to individual symptoms rather than root social, political and economic causes, such approaches may ultimately reinforce the inequalities and injustices that fuel imprisonment. This article presents a case study of an alternative approach. It examines A New Way of Life Reentry Project, a nonprofit organization in South Los Angeles, California, that offers housing and support to women coming home from prison through a critical and holistic framework—one that attends simultaneously to the physical, mental and social contexts that shape lived experiences before, during and after prison. Drawing from seven years of observation and participation, supplemented by ten in-depth interviews, I argue that a critical, holistic approach can have a significant positive impact for people returning home from prison.en_US
dc.description.departmentAnthropologyen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2794105P
dc.identifier.citationCritical Criminology, Springer via: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10612-016-9346-3en_US
dc.identifier.doidoi:10.1007/s10612-016-9346-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/46413
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.relation.ispartofUT Faculty/Researcher Worksen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCritical Criminology;October, 2016
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subjectprisoner rentryen_US
dc.subjectimprisonmenten_US
dc.subjectwomenen_US
dc.subjectprogram evaluationen_US
dc.subjectqualitativeen_US
dc.subjectcriticalen_US
dc.subjectfeministen_US
dc.title(Re)entry from the Bottom Up: Case Study of a Critical Approach to Assisting Women Coming Home from Prisonen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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