Liam Martin

Halfway House

Prisoner Reentry and the Shadow of Carceral Care

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Halfway House draws on three and a half years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork to open a window on the little-known web of organizations governing prisoner reentry at the frontier of mass incarceration. It tells the story of Joe Badillo, along with a small cast of connected characters, by following the ups and downs of his unfolding experience as he leaves jail and searches for a place in the world outside while confronting overwhelming obstacles. Joe's first stop after release is Bridge House, and the author moves into the program as a researcher around the same time he arrives, the beginnings of the long-term collaboration at the heart of the book. This deeply personal account is weaved into a larger analysis of the halfway house as an institution, a site of punishment and carceral control as well as housing and social support. With a national push underway for decarceration and alternatives to imprisonment, it provides an opportunity to rethink the pitfalls and possibilities of using the halfway house to challenge the worst excesses of mass incarceration"--

Produktdetails

• Alternative Criminology
• Verlag: New York University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 228mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781479800698
• ISBN-10: 1479800694
• Artikelnr.: 61505538

Autorenporträt

Liam Martin is a Lecturer at the Institute of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington.