Buffering the Stigma? On the Racialization of Religious Attendance and Health among Formerly Incarcerated Persons

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Religious Attendance ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated Persons

Food Insecurity Among Formerly Incarcerated Adults

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 1493-1511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Testa ◽  
Dylan B. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Add Health ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
National Longitudinal Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated Persons

The purpose of this study is to further the understanding of the hardships faced by formerly incarcerated individuals by investigating the association between prior incarceration and postrelease food insecurity. Drawing on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), our findings demonstrate that a history of incarceration is associated with an increased likelihood of experiencing food insecurity. This association is found to partially operate through household income, depressive symptoms, marital status, and social isolation. Given the importance of food insecurity in predicting future health outcomes and nutritional behavior, food insecurity may be an important factor in driving health disparities among formerly incarcerated persons.

"Jesus Saved an Ex-Con"

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Orozco Flores
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Community Renewal ◽  
National Network ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated Persons

This book presents two cases of faith-based community organizing for and among the formerly incarcerated. It examines how the Community Renewal Society, a protestant-founded group, and LA Voice, an affiliate of the Catholic-Jesuit-founded PICO National Network, foster faith-based community organizing for the formerly incarcerated. It conceptualizes the expanding boundaries of democratic inclusion—in order to facilitate the social integration of the formerly incarcerated—as prophetic redemption. It draws from participant observation and semistructured interviews to examine how the Community Renewal Society offered support for the Fighting to Overcome Records and Create Equality (FORCE) project, while LA Voice offered support for the Homeboy Industries–affiliated Homeboys Local Organizing Committee (LOC), both as forms of prophetic redemption. Both FORCE and the Homeboys LOC were led by formerly incarcerated persons, and drew from their parent organizations’ respective religious traditions and community organizing strategies. At the same time, FORCE and Homeboys LOC members drew from displays learned in recovery to participate in community organizing. The result was that prophetic redemption led to an empowering form of social integration, “returning citizenship.”

Effective Resources Supporting Healthy Sexual Behavior in Formerly Incarcerated Persons

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 362-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Senteio ◽  
Summer Wright Collins ◽  
Rachael Jackson ◽  
Stacy Welk ◽  
Shun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated Persons

scholarly journals Afterword

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Detailed Consideration ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated Persons ◽  
Empirical Foundation ◽  
Empirical Material

In this afterword, I consider some of the important insights that are generated in this special issue. The thorough and detailed consideration of the ways in which detainees and formerly incarcerated persons survive confinement and the constraints imposed on them illustrates the power of ethnography. Each of the contributions builds on strong empirical material and sometimes decade-long engagement with people in and on the brink of confining institutions. In this way, the contributions form a comprehensive empirical foundation for understanding confinement beyond the carceral institutions, while also allowing us to ask new kinds of questions about confinement beyond site. While firmly rooted in prison ethnography, the special issue thus inspires urban studies and anthropologists more broadly to think concertedly about the role of confinement, not only as the fate of many urban residents but as an ever-present element of the urban imaginary and of urban life.

scholarly journals Transitional care for formerly incarcerated persons with HIV: protocol for a realist review

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenkin Tsang ◽  
Sharmistha Mishra ◽  
Janet Rowe ◽  
Patricia O’Campo ◽  
Carolyn Ziegler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Care ◽  
Realist Review ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated Persons

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 163-170
Author(s):  
Edward Orozco Flores
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Civic Activism ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated Persons ◽  
Constructing Meaning

This chapter summarizes the main argument of the book and then telescopes out to examine how the two cases of prophetic redemption fit within the broader landscape of contemporary changes in civic activism among the formerly incarcerated. It argues that some are resistant to accept the fact that formerly incarcerated people can engage in civic and political action as a form of social integration. However, it also argues that neoliberal, elite actors are attempting to interpellate formerly incarcerated activists’ efforts for nefarious purposes. It finishes by considering the agency of formerly incarcerated persons in constructing meaning from the postincarceration experience and in using civic activism to make good.

Defining "Success" in Corrections and Reentry

Criminology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Soyer
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated Persons ◽  
The Government ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Desistance From Crime

Defining what exactly constitutes successful reentry into society is challenging. Is abstaining from criminal behavior enough to be considered a success? Or does a successful reentry imply more than desistance from crime, for example, the ability to live independently—without receiving substantial support from family or the government? What about those formerly incarcerated persons who desist for a significant period of time and then relapse unexpectedly? Should they be defined by their momentary failure? Research suggests that formerly incarcerated persons have a wide range of social welfare needs such as substance abuse problems, housing insecurity, and prolonged unemployment. Recent studies therefore conclude that reentry cannot be measured easily as a binary concept. Reentry, many contemporary criminologists argue, is a complex process marked by cycles of success and failure. By integrating concepts such as individual agency and identity formation, criminologists and sociologists have developed a more nuanced understanding of reentry processes. Qualitative research in particular challenges a dichotomous understanding of recidivism and desistance, emphasizing that reentering society after prison is a process marked by setbacks. In those studies, success or failure are not definitive verdicts, but rather momentary snapshots of pathways whose outcome remain uncertain.

Validation of a Tool to Measure Attitudes Among Community Corrections Officers Toward Shared Decision Making With Formerly Incarcerated Persons With Mental Illness

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 612-627
Author(s):  
Jason Matejkowski ◽  
Sungkyu Lee ◽  
Margaret E. Severson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Shared Decision Making ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Community Corrections ◽  
Community Supervision ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated Persons

Community corrections professionals may employ shared decision making (SDM) in many ways with those they supervise who have serious mental illness (SMI). This study examined the psychometric properties of the Community Corrections Shared Decision Making Scale (CCSDM), an instrument developed to measure attitudes that support SDM in community corrections settings. Community corrections professionals were surveyed as to their support of collaborative decision making with their supervisees with SMI. Exploratory factor analysis ( n = 146) and confirmatory factor analysis ( n = 145) were used to explore and validate the scale’s factor structure. Results indicate the CCSDM functions as an internally consistent, two-factor scale useful for measuring attitudes toward SDM with people who have SMI and are under community supervision. Respondents were generally supportive of SDM. Given the benefits of SDM, assessment of these beliefs is essential to inform implementation strategies aimed at establishing SDM policies and practices in community corrections settings.

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