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Mothering and Desistance in Re-Entry

Copyright Year 2019

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Although there is plentiful research on the impact of spousal relationship, employment and the armed forces on desistance from criminal behaviour in the lives of men, far less is known nigh the factors most important to women's desistance. Imprisoned women are far more likely than their male counterparts to be the principal caretakers of children before their incarceration, and are far more probable to intend to reunify with their children upon their release from incarceration. This book focuses on the function 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 confined and the ways in which mothering makes desistance more or less likely after incarceration. It outlines the ways in which race, gender, course, nationality, sexuality, gender identity, and other characteristics affect mothering and desistance, and explores the tensions betwixt individual and system-level factors in the consideration of desistance.

This book suggests that any discussion of desistance, peculiarly for women, must move across the traditional focus on individual characteristics and controlling. Such a focus overlooks the function 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 copse and the forests, and the quantum in-between, in a way that aims for lasting societal and individual changes.

Table of Contents

Introduction,  1. Incarcerated women and mothers around the world,  2. Methods and theory,  3. Women and mothers coming home,  iv. Mothering, desistance, and redemption,  5. The fashion forward

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Biography

Venezia Michalsen is an Acquaintance Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University (MSU) in New Jersey. Before coming to MSU, she worked at the Women'southward Prison Association (WPA) in New York City, an system which provides direct services to women who accept 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 Middle.

Reviews

"Venezia Michalsen's new volume Mothering and Desistance is a wonderful, impressive and moving study of the overlooked question of the conditions under which women desist from crime. Going back to Shadd Maruna'south classic work Making Practiced, Michalsen correctly points out that men's desistance has been researched far more than often than women's -- fifty-fifty though her data show that women are growing worldwide, and disproportionately in the United States, as a percentage of incarcerated populations. Her research is impressive insofar as Mothering and Desistance is based on interviews with close to 100 women; it persuasively shows that a large proportion of formerly incarcerated women are mothers, and that motherhood is a huge contributing factor influencing women's desistance. Michalsen's volume is uniquely researched and well-framed, and will exist a highly cited written report on this topic. I am excited about this volume's publication and would employ it immediately in my classes on criminology, deviance, gender and crime and the folklore of punishment."

- Lynn Chancer, former co-editor of Theoretical Criminology"Dr Michalsen's book is both important and makes a valuable contribution to the literature in number of ways. Kickoff, she pulls together a remarkable amount of enquiry and descriptive work to paint a very detailed and compelling global picture show on the current country of incarcerated women. 2d, her concentration on desistance (and peculiarly the specific dynamic betwixt mothers and their children) as opposed to the more than narrow, less nuanced but more than unremarkably used mensurate of recidivism reduction makes this a pregnant addition to the criminological literature on desistance. Finally, her policy suggestions in her "what is to exist done" department is much stronger than the versions in nigh academic criminological work. Her feel every bit a practitioner in the Women'south Prison Association every bit well as her current academic researc