Justice reinvestment was introduced as a response to mass incarceration and racial
disparity in the United States in 2003. This book examines justice reinvestment from its …

Work requirements backed by threats of incarceration offer a fertile but neglected site for
sociolegal inquiry. These “carceral work mandates” confound familiar accounts of both the …

This book makes a unique contribution to the internationalisation of criminological
knowledge about gender and desistance through a qualitative cross-national exploration of …

Employment has been cited as one of the most effective protections against recidivism for
formerly incarcerated people; however, job seekers with criminal records face barriers to …

In this article, we interrogate three assumptions related to women's post-release
reintegration and success that are prevalent within and across official, institutional and …

Scholarship focusing on barriers to the employment of ex-prisoners has paid little attention
to the linkages between mass incarceration and the structural conditions of low wage labor …

This article investigates the involvement of the penal state in the lives of criminalized people
as a controlling force that takes multiple forms. We offer the concept of modalities of penal …

Research linking social and penal policy has grown extensively in recent years. Wacquant
(2009) suggests that retrenchment of welfare support and expansion of the penal system …

In the current era of mass incarceration, an increasing number of people face the challenge
of transitioning from prison to society. Researchers of post-incarceration life have produced …

Women involved in the criminal justice system experience multiple forms of adversity over
their lifetimes. These events may include childhood abuse, involvement in the child welfare …