Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures for Women Leaving Prison

ISBN-13: 9780815384380 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 182 str.

Pedlar, Alison

Opis

Community Re-entry provides a rare opportunity to hear directly from women who have spent time in a Canadian federal penitentiary. Based on more than a decade of engagement with women in prison, the authors gathered rich and personal information on women’s lived experiences during incarceration and what they anticipated and hoped for on release. This book relates their narratives and the authors‘ critical analysis of their experiences both within and outside prison, shedding light on the challenges incarcerated women face as they return to the community. This unique perspective will appeal to students, academics, community-based advocates and activists.

Spis treści

1. Incarceration and Community Re-Entry for Women.  2. Studying Community Re-Entry for Federally Sentenced Women.  3. Defining Aspects of Everyday Life: Poverty, Trauma, and Substance-Dependence.  4. The Downward Spiral of Prison Life.  5. Finding Identity.  6. Getting Out and Staying Out.