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Author Morash, Merry, 1946- author.

Title In a box : gender-responsive reform, mass community supervision, and neoliberal policies / Merry Morash
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 246 pages)
Contents The research, the context, and the reform -- Starting points -- Costs of conviction -- Agent actions -- Treatment -- Marginalization -- Endpoints -- Reform -- Appendix : method and sample characteristics
Summary "In a Box draws on the experiences of over one hundred Michigan women on probation or parole to analyze how the criminal justice system and neoliberal social policies hampered the state's efforts at gender-responsive reforms in community supervision. Closely narrating the stories of a diverse sample of six of these women, Merry Morash shows how countervailing influences kept reform-oriented probation and parole agents and women they supervise "in a box" by limiting and even blocking positive effects of supervision approaches that break away from the punitive frameworks that characterize many past and present correctional efforts. Inspired by the interviewees' reflections on their own experiences, the book concludes with recommendations for truly effective reforms within and outside the justice system"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 06, 2024)
Subject Community-based corrections -- Michigan
Women parolees -- Michigan
Equality -- Michigan
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Michigan
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
Community-based corrections
Criminal justice, Administration of
Equality
Women parolees
Michigan
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023038216
ISBN 0520393538
9780520393530
Other Titles Gender-responsive reform, mass community supervision, and neoliberal policies