Offender Reentry: Beyond Crime and Punishment

This book makes a unique contribution to the field of criminal justice that is worthy of serious consideration. Finally a book that focuses on the success of ex-offenders’ and their experiences of reentry during and after supervision. The integrated review of social science, popular media, and real life stories of both ex-offenders and community corrections officers brings new life to a topic that has been extensively discussed in the literature, but usually from the perspective of failure versus success. This qualitative work embeds ex-offender’s perspectives within the social science literature to bring home the point that understanding the pathways to success is crucial to establishing policy and practices relevant to successful reintegration. Too often we focus our efforts on understanding failure without a clear vision of how ex-offenders and the criminal justice system actually experience success by moving people forward—Offender Reentry makes a unique contribution by illustrating that reentry is a human experience and a multifaceted process that requires sensible policies and practices to assist ex-offenders, their families, and the professionals focused on successful outcomes. This book gives depth to existing quantitative research and clarity to theorists, researchers, and practitioners about how to move the criminal justice system toward an expectation of success versus acceptance of mediocrity and oftentimes failure.