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In a Box draws on the experiences of more than one hundred Michigan women on probation or parole to analyze how court, state, and federal policies hamper the state's efforts at gender-responsive reforms in community supervision. Closely narrating the stories of six of these women, Merry Morash shows how countervailing influences keep reform-oriented probation and parole agents and the women they supervise in a box. Supervisory approaches that attempt to move away from punitive frameworks are limited or blocked by neoliberal social policies. Inspired by the interviewees' reflections on their own experiences, the book offers recommendations for truly effective reforms within and outside the justice system.

Table of Contents
Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

1. The Research, the Context, and the Reform
2. Starting Points
3. Costs of Conviction
4. Agent Actions
5. Treatment
6. Marginalization
7. Endpoints
8. Reform

Appendix: Method and Sample Characteristics
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 13 February 2024
      ISBN-13 9780520393516
      978-0520393516
      ISBN-10 0520393511
      Also in:
      Gender studies: women and girls Probation services

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In a Box draws on the experiences of more than one hundred Michigan women on probation or parole to analyze how court, state, and federal policies hamper the state's efforts at gender-responsive reforms in community supervision. Closely narrating the stories of six of these women, Merry Morash shows how countervailing influences keep reform-oriented probation and parole agents and the women they supervise in a box. Supervisory approaches that attempt to move away from punitive frameworks are limited or blocked by neoliberal social policies. Inspired by the interviewees' reflections on their own experiences, the book offers recommendations for truly effective reforms within and outside the justice system.

      Table of Contents
      Contents

      Acknowledgments
      List of Abbreviations

      1. The Research, the Context, and the Reform
      2. Starting Points
      3. Costs of Conviction
      4. Agent Actions
      5. Treatment
      6. Marginalization
      7. Endpoints
      8. Reform

      Appendix: Method and Sample Characteristics
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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