RT Article
T1 ‘Mobilizing’ prisoner reentry research: Halfway houses and the spatial-temporal dynamics of prison release
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 25
IS 4
SP 601
OP 618
A1 Maier, Katharina
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1778198635
AB To date, prisoner reentry has been treated as a generic process—that is, people ‘reenter,’ without much specification regarding when and/or where this ‘reentry’ occurs. Drawing on in-depth interviews with halfway house residents in a north-western Canadian city, this article seeks to unpack the concept of prisoner reentry by exploring its spatial-temporal dimensions. I conceptualize prisoner reentry as a temporally fragmented sometimes piecemeal process that occurs across time as well as different locales, including neighbourhoods, cities, and sometimes even provinces. I do this by analyzing reentry through the lens of mobilities. Specifically, I argue that reentry via halfway houses produces mobilities that are experienced by former prisoners as simultaneously disciplining and productive of their future. In this context, I highlight the importance of paying attention to ex-prisoners’ conceptions of their future, including when and where they imagine that they will enact different aspects of their reintegration.
K1 Work
K1 Supervision
K1 Prisoner Reentry
K1 Neighbourhoods
K1 Mobilities
K1 Halfway houses
DO 10.1177/1362480619896371