Global Perspectives on Re-Entry

Global Perspectives on Re-Entry explores the challenges facing ex-prisoners as they attempt to return to society after serving time in prison. The problem of re-entry is of growing interest to academics, correctional professionals and policy makers who are concerned with high rates of incarceration and the increase in the numbers of prisoners caught up in the revolving door of criminal justice

This book is the first attempt to explore the problem of re-entry from an international perspective. The focus of this book is on strategies utilized in various parts of the Western world that shed light on the struggles facing ex-prisoners upon re-entry, as well as on the way different countries have attempted to solve these problems. The book seeks to address the important set of issues involved by bringing together the best of recent research and ideas on the subject of desistance from crime around the world, with a distinct focus on how research might impact upon the implementation of ex-offender reintegration policies.

Editors

Ekunwe, 0. Ikponwosa is at the School of Management/Politics, University of Tampere, Finland. He is an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

Jones, S. Richard is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University, Wisconsin, USA. He is the author of the book Doing Time: Prison Experience and Identity (with Thomas Schmid).

A printed copy of the book is no longer available.