Doing Time on the Outside

by Maidment, Madonna R.

• ISBN13: 9780802093899
• ISBN10: 0802093892
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-30
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Criminalized women are the focus of great interest in contemporary sociological research all over the world, however much of the growing body of work in this area has focused on the prison. Considerably less attention has been paid to women serving their sentences in the community. Doing Time on the Outside fills a gap in the research by focusing on the experiences of women on conditional release, and attempting to understand how some criminalized women avoid going back into custody given the many challenges they face.Using data collected in a series of interviews, MaDonna R. Maidment identifies four major factors characterizing women's attempts at re-integration. First, the fewer 'layers of social control' a woman lived under prior to her prison term, the greater her chances of staying out of prison. Those women accustomed to a lifetime of formal social controls are vulnerable and largely dependent on continued intervention.Maidment's important findings have significant implications: they beg us to re-examine how our society processes criminalized women, and to call into question well-entrenched contemporary policies, which have failed to account for the economic, social, and cultural realities of women's lives.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	3	(11)
1 Penal Controls on Criminalized Women	14	(19)
2 Sociopolitical Context of Criminalizing Women	33	(14)
3 Stumbling Blocks to 'Corrections' Research	47	(10)
4 Getting In: Pathways to Prison	57	(25)
5 Doing Time on the Inside: Prisoning of Women	82	(20)
6 Getting Out: Immediate and Measurable Transitions	102	(21)
7 State and Localized Controls	123	(23)
Conclusion: Where to from Here?	146	(7)
Appendix: Research Guide	153	(4)
Notes	157	(8)
References	165	(14)
Index	179