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Prisoner Reentry in the 21st Century
This groundbreaking edited volume evaluates prisoner reentry using a critical approach
to demonstrate how the many issues surrounding reentry do not merely intersect but are
in fact reinforcing and interdependent. The number of former incarcerated persons with a
felony conviction living in the United States has grown significantly in the last
decade, reaching into the millions. When men and women are released from prison, their
journey encompasses a range of challenges that are unique to each individual, including
physical and mental illnesses, substance abuse, gender identity, complicated family
dynamics, the denial of rights, and the inability to voice their experiences about
returning home.
Although scholars focus on the obstacles former prisoners encounter and how to reduce
recidivism rates, the main challenge of prisoner reentry is how multiple interdependent
issues overlap in complex ways. By examining prisoner reentry from various critical
perspectives, this volume depicts how the carceral continuum, from incarceration to
reentry, negatively impacts individuals, families, and communities; how the criminal
justice system extends different forms of social control that break social networks; and
how the shifting nature of prisoner reentry has created new and complicated obstacles to
those affected by the criminal justice system. This volume explores these realities with
respect to a range of social, community, political, and policy issues that former
incarcerated persons must navigate to successfully reenter society.
A springboard for future critical research and policy discussions, this book will be of
interest to U.S. and international researchers and practitioners interested in the topic
of prisoner reentry, as well as graduate and upper-level undergraduate students
concerned with contemporary issues in corrections, community-based corrections, critical
issues in criminal justice, criminal justice policies, and reentry.
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