RT Article
T1 (Re)entry from the bottom up: case study of a critical approach to assisting women coming home from prison
JF Critical criminology
VO 25
IS 3
SP 357
OP 374
A1 Burch, Melissa
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1845930460
AB Despite 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 7 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.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 372-374
K1 Criminal Record
K1 Drug Treatment Program
K1 Entry Program
K1 Foster Care
K1 Parole Officer
DO 10.1007/s10612-016-9346-3