After Prison: Navigating Employment and Reintegration

ISBN-13: 9781771123167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 320 str.

Rose Ricciardelli; Adrienne M. F. Peters

Opis

This collection explores the relationship between offending, reentry, and employment, and barriers encountered in securing a rewarding job after prison. Interviews, statistics, and literature highlight how employment assumes considerable meaning for former prisoners that can foster successful reintegration, and even long-term desistance.

Spis treści

• Introduction: Rose Ricciardelli, Don Evans, & Adrienne Peters
• Section I - The Employment-Re-entry Enigma/Dilemma
• 1 Work after Prison: One Man's Transition: James Young
• 2 Employment and Desistance from Crime: Kemi S. Anazodo, Christopher Chan, and Rose Ricciardelli
• 3 Employment and Criminal Offenders with Mental Illness: Krystle Martin
• Section II - Criminal Histories, Employment Prospects, and Moving Forward
• 4 Job Search, Suspended: Changes to Canada's Pardon Program and the Impact on Finding Employment: Samantha McAleese
• 5 Vulnerabilities and Barriers in Post-Release Employment Reintegration as Indicated by Parolees: Rose Ricciardelli and Taylor Mooney
• Section III - Employment Reintegration Programming: Supportive Strategies and Related Outcomes
• 6 Is Criminal History at the Time of Employment Predictive of Job Performance? A Comparison of Disciplinary Actions and Terminations in a Sample of Production Workers: Mike G. Harmon, Laura J. Hickman, Alexandra M. Arneson, and Ashley M. Hansen
• 7 Transforming Rehabilitation: A Critical Evaluation of Barriers Encountered by an Offender Rehabilitation Program for South Asian/Muslim Offenders within the New Probation Service Model: Christine Victoria Hough
• 8 Promoting Employment Opportunities through Mentorship for Gang-Involved Youth Reintegrating into the Community: Adrienne M.F. Peters
• 9 Barriers to Community Reintegration: The Benefits of Client-Centered Case Management and Pre-employment Skills Training: Ashley Brown
• Section IV - The Employment Reintegration of Unique Populations
• 10 ""Between a Rock and Hard Place"": How Being a ""Convict"" Hinders Finding Work in the Neoliberal, Late Capitalist Economy: Dale C. Spencer
• 11 Does the ""Wrongful"" Part of Wrongful Conviction Make a Difference in the Job Market?: Kimberley A. Clow
• Conclusion: Employment Reintegration: Rose Ricciardelli & Adrienne Peters
• Contributors
• Rose Ricciardelli, Memorial University, St. John's, NL
• Donald G. Evans, John Howard Society, Toronto, ON
• Adrienne Peters, Memorial University, St. John's, NL
• James Young [undisclosed; former prisoner]
• Kemi S. Anazodo, York University, Toronto, ON
• Christopher Chan, York University, Toronto, ON
• Krystle Martin, Ontario Institute for Mental Health Treatment, Toronto, ON
• Samantha McAleese, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
• Taylor Mooney, Memorial University, St. John's, NL
• Mike G. Harmon, Portland State University, Portland, OR
• Laura J. Hickman, Portland State University, Portland, OR
• Alexandra M. Arneson, Portland State University, Portland, OR
• Ashley M. Hansen, Portland State University, Portland, OR
• Christine Victoria Hough, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
• Ashley Brown, John Howard Society, Toronto, ON
• Dale C. Spencer, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
• Kimberley A. Clow, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON