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Author Leverentz, Andrea M., 1973- author.

Title Intersecting lives : how place shapes reentry / Andrea M. Leverentz
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) : maps
Contents Introduction -- Criminalizing disadvantage : race, class, gender, and reentry in Boston -- Bouncing and the black box of reentry's neighborhood effects -- Dorchester : returning to a "high crime" neighborhood -- The South End : returning to a "gentrified" neighborhood -- South Boston : returning to a "white" neighborhood -- Small towns, poverty, and addiction -- Conclusion
Summary "Few would disagree that neighborhood and place are important dimensions of reentry from prison, but we have a less clear sense of why or how they matter--and we rarely get a view of the lived social-interactional dynamics between people returning from incarceration and receiving communities. Intersecting Lives focuses on the processes by which neighborhood and place influence reentry experiences, and how these processes shape community life. Through interviews and ethnographic observations, Andrea M. Leverentz brings readers into three very different Boston communities. These places and the interactions they foster shape reentry outcomes, including re-offending, surveillance, relationship formation, and access to opportunities. This book sheds crucial new light on the processes of reentry and desistance, tying them intimately to space and community, including dynamics around race, gender, gentrification, homelessness, and transportation"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 28, 2022)
Subject Prisoners -- Deinstitutionalization -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Prisoners -- Deinstitutionalization -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 21st century -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
Prisoners -- Deinstitutionalization
Massachusetts -- Boston
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021061639
ISBN 0520976738
9780520976733