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Rethinking women’s post-release reintegration and ‘success’

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posted on 2024-06-13, 12:28 authored by B Carlton, M Segrave
In this article, we interrogate three assumptions related to women’s post-release reintegration and success that are prevalent within and across official, institutional and criminological discourses and practice. Our analysis is based on qualitative interviews conducted with support workers and women about experiences and perceptions of support and success in Victoria, Australia. Ultimately, we contend that the introduction of women-specific policies and support programs in Victoria has had limited impact because they are at core premised upon the same problematic success-related assumptions that have failed to adequately serve mainstream prisoner populations, i.e. men. We issue a broader challenge to criminologists to rethink dominant understandings about post-release reintegration in the interests of facilitating alternative approaches that respond to the structural injustices that define the post-release trajectories of women and men.

History

Journal

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology

Volume

49

Pagination

281-299

Location

London, Eng.

ISSN

0004-8658

eISSN

1837-9273

Language

English

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2015, The Author(s)

Issue

2

Publisher

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD