"It's Their World, so You've Just Got to Get Through": Women's Experiences of Parole Governance. (April 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Opsal, Tara
• Is Part Of: Feminist criminology. Volume 10:Number 2(2015:Apr.)
• Page Start: 188
• Page End: 207
• Publication Date: 2015-04
• Subjects: community corrections -- reentry -- parole -- gender; Feminist criminology -- Periodicals; Female offenders -- Periodicals; 364.37405
• DOI: 10.1177/1557085114539723
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1557-0851

Abstract

This article brings together research on parole governance with women's experiences of reentry. In particular, drawing on longitudinal qualitative interviews with a group of women leaving prison and returning to their communities, the present study highlights the way parole structures women's reintegration efforts post-incarceration. The women's experiences highlight how parole governance intersects, conflicts with, and complicates their efforts to return to their communities and transition out of the gaze of the penal state.