Challenges Incarcerated Women Face as They Return to Their Communities: Findings from Life History Interviews

By B. Richie. 2001

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Helping Others as a Response to Reconcile a Criminal Past (2015, background): “…and Behaviorlebel et al. / the role of the Wounded Healer research-article2014 Many prisoners and former prisoners express a desire to receive mentoring from for-merly incarcerated persons who are “making it” in conventional society (e.g., Erickson, Crow, Zurcher, & Connett, 1973; Richie, 2001).”
Men, Women, and Postrelease Offending (2012, background): “Thus, reunification is often a primary goal for women after their release (Giordano et al., 2002; Richie, 2001).”
Reintegration Success and Failure: Factors Impacting Reintegration Among Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women (2010, methodology): “Studies have documented the pressing challenges of reentry (Petersilia, 2003; Richie, 2001; Travis, 2005), the correlates of recidivism (Beck & Shipley, 1989; Bonta, Pang, & Wallance, 1995), and the causes of desistance (Giordano, Cernkovich, & Rudolph, 2002; Laub & Sampson, 2003; Maruna, 2001).”
Sacrosanct or Flawed: Risk, Accountability and Gender- Responsive Penal Politics (2010, background): “Even modified for gender, risk-need tools cannot capture the complexity of the broader social and systemic factors that ‘compel crime’ (Richie 2001) and contribute to women’s engagement in crime (Hannah-Moffat 2009).”
Gender Differences and Offender Reentry: A Review of the Literature (2009, background): “Parents, more often women, trying to stabilize their lives and regain custody or reunify with their children must have housing, employment, and demonstrate chemical abstinence, yet these multiple requirements and the restrictions to attain them create a Catch-22 that compounds their problems (Richie”
The `Chicken and Egg' of Subjective and Social Factors in Desistance from Crime (2008, background): “Ex-prisoners also face challenges in re-establishing family ties (Lanier 2003; Richie 2001) and many struggle with the temptations of alcohol and/or drugs (Belenko 1998).”
If One Doesn’t Get You Another One Will (2012, background): “It is generally believed that women returning home from prison must deal with more issues than their male counterparts (see for example, Bloom, Owen, & Covington, 2003; O’Brien, 2001; Richie, 2001).”
Reentry and Renegotiating Motherhood (2009, methodology): “Investment in educational opportunities for girls and women of color needs to be expanded in poor communities (Richie, 2001).”
Gendered Pathways (2009, background): “Women offenders are largely a group deficient in both social and human capital and often come from very disadvantaged and poverty-stricken backgrounds (Holtfreter et al., 2004; Owen & Bloom, 1995; Richie, 2001) characterized by few social networks and thus little social capital (Lin, 2000).”
Long-Term Patterns of Offending in Women (2010, background): “The damage extends beyond the woman herself; incarceration or other criminal justice interventions have strong, lasting, and often devastating effects on those people she is caring for (Bhana & Hochfeld, 2001; Covington, 2002; Cunningham & Baker, 2003; Enos, 2001; Green & Pranis, 2006; Harm & Philli”
Women Coming Home: Long‐Term Patterns of Recidivism (2010, background): “Lack of childcare, discrimination, and conflict with employers have been identified as central to women’s reduced employment rate upon release (Golden, 2005; Harm & Phillips, 2001; Richie, 2001; Schram, KoonsWitt, Williams, & McShane, 2006).”
An Examination of the Impact of Formerly Incarcerated Persons Helping others (2007, background): “Many prisoners and former prisoners express a desire to receive mentoring from formerly incarcerated persons who are “making it” in conventional society (e.g., Erickson et al., 1973; Irwin, 2005; McAnany et al., 1974; Richie, 2001; Sowards, O’Boyle, & Weissman, 2006).”
The Impact of Network Relationships, Prison Experiences, and Internal Transformation on Women's Success After Prison Release (2010, background): “Abusive and criminal partners create special difficulties for women coming out of prison, for example by making the home an unsafe place to live or by threatening violence if women do not commit or cover up criminal acts (Hirsch, 2005; Richie, 2001; Bloom et al., 2003).”
Contact Between Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children (2006, background): “Similarly, the trauma of separation and loss of parental control can have adverse effects on mothers (Block & Potthast, 1998; Radosh, 2002; Richie, 2001).”