Reflecting on research following formerly incarcerated Massachusetts women for more than
a decade, this paper questions whether conventional understandings of recidivism and …

While considerable attention has been given to the ways that intimate partner violence
impacts women, the prevailing analyses have not sufficiently attended to the range of social …

Formerly incarcerated women face multidimensional barriers post-release, ranging from
individual, relational, institutional, to systemic. Drawing on the conceptual framework of …

Punishment is often performed through judicial texts. Narrative criminology scholarship,
however, has paid little attention to how criminalised people engage with these texts when …

Narrative criminology draws upon the stories of the research participants to better
understand crime. These narratives are shaped not only by a range of structural, institutional …

For the past 10 years we have followed the experiences of a cohort of formerly incarcerated
Massachusetts women. In contrast to the diversity of their experiences in nearly every aspect …

This paper examines whether rehabilitation delivered to women in prison in Aotearoa New
Zealand can be considered trauma-informed. The ability of Corrections departments to …

Existing scholarship posits that gender is socially constructed, with meanings attributed to
bodies that signify conventions of masculinity and femininity. Such embodied constructs are …

Formerly incarcerated women are a marginalized group in our society who share
transformative adjustments related to their identities. For this research project, I sought to …

Mass incarceration has impacted much of the population in the United States over the last
several decades. One of the most significantly impacted groups is women. Over half of …