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Making it on the Outside: Understanding Barriers to Women’s Post-Incarceration Reintegration
The demands on women to be considered 'successful' in reentry are often competing with and exacerbated by the gendered inequities women...
Women Disrupting a Marginalized Identity: Subverting the Parolee Identity through Narrative
Women on parole often resist the stigma associated with their criminal records, and instead redefine their identities in a way that...
Women on Parole: Understanding the Impact of Surveillance
The main purpose of parole is to monitor women rather than assist them with successfully reentering back into society. This article uses...
It's Their World, So You've Just Got to Get through': Women's Experiences of Parole Governance
Parole is gendered and tailored to male 'risk factors', which often has a doubly negative impact on women's reentry experiences. Based on...
Life Capacity Beyond Reentry: A Critical Examination of Racism and Prisoner Reentry Reform in.....
Reentry support should provide access and resources to higher education, including leadership and organizational skills, and should...
Devolving the Carceral State: Race, Prisoner Reentry, and the Micro-Politics of Urban Poverty....
The carceral state is furthering its reach into poor, Black and Brown communities through community-based reentry programs, continuing a...
“Free but Still Walking the Yard”: Prisonization and the Problems of Reentry
People returning to society after incarceration often experience a type of shock while they are forced to reorient themselves to a new...
Being a Good Daughter and Sister: Families of Origin in the Reentry of African American Female....
Black women in reentry face unique challenges. Based on repeated in-depth interviews over 16 months with 43 women who have criminal...
People, Places, and Things: How Female Ex-Prisoners Negotiate Their Neighborhood Context
Neighborhoods impact the reentry and desistance process, particularly for Black women. Based on multiple interviews with Black women...
Pedagogy of Individual Choice and Female Inmate Reentry in the U.S. Southwest
Ignoring the social structures and inequities that impact the likelihood of 'success' when reentering society after incarceration is both...
Desistance, Persistence, Resilience and Resistance: A Qualitative Exploration of how Black Fathers..
Black men with a criminal record work hard to fulfill their roles as fathers, despite the stigma associated with both their Blackness and...
Reentry to What? Theorizing Prisoner Reentry in the Jobless Future
The broad sociological factors impacting people returning to society from incarceration have thus far been largely ignored in the reentry...
Categorical Exclusions: How Racialized Gender Regulation Reproduces Reentry Hardship
Black trans women are often severely discriminated against in the reentry field, including by reentry service providers. This study...
“Work Your Story”: Selective Voluntary Disclosure, Stigma Management, and Seeking Employment....
Cities in the U.S. and Canada should adopt 'Selective, Voluntary Disclosure' (SVD) practices, which treat sharing of criminal record...
Women's Survival Post-imprisonment: Connecting Imprisonment with Pains Past and Present
Reentry and support programs should acknowledge and seek to remedy the interwoven connection between past traumatic experiences caused...
Criminal Record Questions in the Era of “Ban the Box”: Criminal Record Questions
When it comes to questions about criminal records on job applications, there is very little consistency in how the question is asked and...
Workers with Criminal Records: A Survey by the Society for Human Resource Management and....
The hesitation to hire people with criminal records stems mostly from concerns about general perception of the company as well as legal...
The Edge of Stigma: An Audit of the Effects of Low-Level Criminal Records on Employment
While misdemeanor convictions still negatively impact a job applicants' employment prospects, they are not as disqualifying as felony...
Employer aversion to criminal records: An experimental study of mechanisms
The stigma associated with criminal justice involvement, whether it's a conviction or an arrest, has a significant influence on hiring...
The Effect of Criminal Background Checks on Hiring Ex-Offenders
Employers who are legally required to run background checks are far less likely to hire someone with a criminal record, compared to...
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