Mothering and Desistance in Re-Entry

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Mothering and Desistance in Re-Entry

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Venezia Michalsen

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Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

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Although there is plentiful research on the impact of marriage, employment and the military on desistance from criminal behaviour in the lives of men, far less is known about the factors most important to women’s desistance. Imprisoned women are far more likely than their male counterparts to be the primary caretakers of children before their incarceration, and are far more likely to intend to reunify with their children upon their release from incarceration. This book focuses on the role of mothering in women’s desistance from criminal behaviour. Drawing on original research, this book explores the nature of mothering during incarceration, how mothers maintain a relationship with their children from behind bars and the ways in which mothering makes desistance more or less likely after incarceration. It outlines the ways in which race, gender, class, nationality, sexuality, gender identity, and other characteristics affect mothering and desistance, and explores the tensions between individual and system-level factors in the consideration of desistance. This book suggests that any discussion of desistance, particularly for women, must move beyond the traditional focus on individual characteristics and decision-making. Such a focus overlooks the role played by context and systems which undermine both women's attempts to be mothers and their attempts to desist. By contrast, in the tradition of Beth Richie’s Compelled to Crime, this book explores both the trees and the forests, and the quantum in-between, in a way that aims for lasting societal and individual changes.

Author Biography:

Venezia Michalsen is an Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University (MSU) in New Jersey. Before coming to MSU, she worked at the Women’s Prison Association (WPA) in New York City, an organization which provides direct services to women who have come into contact with the criminal justice system. She earned her B.A. at Barnard College, and her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice with a focus on Women and Justice, from the CUNY Graduate Center.

Release date NZ

November 1st, 2018

Author

Venezia Michalsen

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

126

Series

Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

ISBN-13

9781138652590

Product ID

26860294

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