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Parole and Beyond

International Experiences of Life After Prison

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Editors:
  1. Ruth Armstrong

    1. Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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  2. Ioan Durnescu

    1. Faculty of Sociology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

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  • Focuses on the under-researched topic of life after prison
  • Draws on the forgotten perspectives of those subject to imprisonment, not just practitioners
  • Questions the aims, role, and problems relating to the probation system

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Parole and Beyond: International Experiences of Life After Prison

    • Ruth Armstrong, Ioan Durnescu
    Pages 1-18

  3. Experiencing Supervision in England—On Licence and on Community Sentences

    • Joanna Shapland, Angela Sorsby, Stephen Farrall, Camilla Priede
    Pages 19-47

  4. Released from Prison in Denmark: Experiences vs. Ambitions

    • Annette Olesen, Anette Storgaard
    Pages 49-76

  5. Walk the Line: Assessing Prison Conduct for Parole in the Netherlands

    • Maaike M. Beckmann
    Pages 77-104

  6. Living in Faith on Parole in Bible Belt USA

    • Ruth Armstrong
    Pages 105-139

  7. Breaking the Rules the Right Way: Resisting Parole Logics and Asserting Autonomy in the USA

    • Robert Werth
    Pages 141-169

  8. Prisoner (Dis)Integration in Australia: Three Stories of Parole and Community Supervision

    • Mark Halsey
    Pages 171-190

  9. The Law, Practice and Experience of ‘Conditional Freedom’ in Chile: No Man’s Land

    • Carolina Villagra, Catalina Droppelmann
    Pages 191-218

  10. Experiences of Parole in Scotland: Stalled Lives

    • Marguerite Schinkel
    Pages 219-242

  11. Exacerbating Deprivation: Trajectories of Confinement in Sierra Leone

    • Andrew M. Jefferson
    Pages 243-269

  12. Routes to Freedom: Romanian and Roma Prisoners Finding their Way Back into the Romanian Society

    • Ioan Durnescu, Andrada Istrate, Cristina Teoroc, Elena Pitiu, Lucian Rotariu
    Pages 271-301

  13. Editors Afterword: Ground Level Listening and Learning

    • Ruth Armstrong, Ioan Durnescu
    Pages 303-314

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 315-319
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About this book

This book provides an assessment of contemporary international knowledge about the experiences of life after release from prison. For over 100 years people leaving prison have been supervised by probation services, but little has been written about how those who are supervised experience this process, or how this process influences experiences post-release. Research suggests that the success or failure of supervision in terms of reoffending may be related to how it is experienced, but little has been written about how supervision interacts with these experiences. Despite this lack of grounded knowledge, post-prison supervision continues to grow internationally.

This book addresses issues relating to life after release through providing a vision of contemporary life after prison in different social and economic climates from those who are the subjects of this growing and changing form of penal power. An engaging and timely study, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of criminal justice and punishment.

Reviews

“Parole and Beyond’ represents an invaluable work of scholarship that does not hold its punches. It makes it abundantly clear that ‘supervision risks demotivating the motivated in its hope of restricting the unmotivated’, and the book offers practical and realistic solutions for reform. This collection merits wide readership amongst policymakers, academics, and students alike.” (Mark Alexander, Prison Service Journal, Issue 236, March, 2018)

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Ruth Armstrong

  • Faculty of Sociology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Ioan Durnescu

About the editors

Dr. Ruth Armstrong is a British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK. Her research has focused on understanding experiences of life in prison and after release from prison. She co-created and directs the Learning Together programme of prison and university education partnerships, seeking to provide routes out of prison and into higher education.


Dr. Ioan Durnecu is Professor of Sociology and Social Work in the Sociology and Social Work faculty at the University of Bucharest, Romania. He teaches and conducts research in the area of probation and prison fields. Ioan Durnescu is also co-editor of the European Journal of Probation and a board member of the Confederation of European Probation (CEP).

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