After Prison

Navigating Employment and Reintegration
Herausgeber: Ricciardelli, Rose; Peters, Adrienne M F

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection explores the relationship between offending, reentry, and employment, and barriers encountered in securing a rewarding job after prison. Interviews, statistics, and literature highlight how employment assumes considerable meaning for former prisoners that can foster successful reintegration, and even long-term desistance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781771123167
• ISBN-10: 1771123168
• Artikelnr.: 47713072

Autorenporträt

Rose Ricciardelli is an assistant professor at Memorial University. She has published in academic journals such as, Sex Roles, and Theoretical Criminology. Her research interests include evolving conceptualizations of masculinities, vulnerabilities and risk as well as experiences of prisoners, police, and correctional officers within different facets of the criminal justice system.Adrienne M.F. Peters is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her seminal research is a longitudinal study examining specialized probation for mentally disordered and serious-/violent young offenders. Research interests include: youth delinquency; mental health; correctional programming; policy; policing recruitment/training; and collaborative policing/crime reduction. She has presented on and co-authored publications in these areas.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Introduction: Rose Ricciardelli
Don Evans
& Adrienne Peters Section I - The Employment-Re-entry Enigma/Dilemma 1 Work after Prison: One Man's Transition: James Young 2 Employment and Desistance from Crime: Kemi S. Anazodo
Christopher Chan
and Rose Ricciardelli 3 Employment and Criminal Offenders with Mental Illness: Krystle Martin Section II - Criminal Histories
Employment Prospects
and Moving Forward 4 Job Search
Suspended: Changes to Canada's Pardon Program and the Impact on Finding Employment: Samantha McAleese 5 Vulnerabilities and Barriers in Post-Release Employment Reintegration as Indicated by Parolees: Rose Ricciardelli and Taylor Mooney Section III - Employment Reintegration Programming: Supportive Strategies and Related Outcomes 6 Is Criminal History at the Time of Employment Predictive of Job Performance? A Comparison of Disciplinary Actions and Terminations in a Sample of Production Workers: Mike G. Harmon
Laura J. Hickman
Alexandra M. Arneson
and Ashley M. Hansen 7 Transforming Rehabilitation: A Critical Evaluation of Barriers Encountered by an Offender Rehabilitation Program for South Asian/Muslim Offenders within the New Probation Service Model: Christine Victoria Hough 8 Promoting Employment Opportunities through Mentorship for Gang-Involved Youth Reintegrating into the Community: Adrienne M.F. Peters 9 Barriers to Community Reintegration: The Benefits of Client-Centered Case Management and Pre-employment Skills Training: Ashley Brown Section IV - The Employment Reintegration of Unique Populations 10 "Between a Rock and Hard Place": How Being a "Convict" Hinders Finding Work in the Neoliberal
Late Capitalist Economy: Dale C. Spencer 11 Does the "Wrongful" Part of Wrongful Conviction Make a Difference in the Job Market?: Kimberley A. Clow Conclusion: Employment Reintegration: Rose Ricciardelli & Adrienne Peters Contributors Rose Ricciardelli
Memorial University
St. John's
NL Donald G. Evans
John Howard Society
Toronto
ON Adrienne Peters
Memorial University
St. John's
NL James Young [undisclosed; former prisoner] Kemi S. Anazodo
York University
Toronto
ON Christopher Chan
York University
Toronto
ON Krystle Martin
Ontario Institute for Mental Health Treatment
Toronto
ON Samantha McAleese
Carleton University
Ottawa
ON Taylor Mooney
Memorial University
St. John's
NL Mike G. Harmon
Portland State University
Portland
OR Laura J. Hickman
Portland State University
Portland
OR Alexandra M. Arneson
Portland State University
Portland
OR Ashley M. Hansen
Portland State University
Portland
OR Christine Victoria Hough
University of Central Lancashire
Preston
UK Ashley Brown
John Howard Society
Toronto
ON Dale C. Spencer
Carleton University
Ottawa
ON Kimberley A. Clow
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Oshawa
ON