Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry

Few would disagree that neighborhood and place are important dimensions of reentry from prison, but we have a less clear sense of why or how they matter--and we rarely get a view of the lived social-interactional dynamics between people returning from incarceration and receiving communities. Intersecting Lives focuses on the processes by which neighborhood and place influence reentry experiences and how these shape community life. Through interviews and ethnographic observations, Andrea M. Leverentz brings readers into three very different Boston communities. These places and the interactions they foster shape reentry outcomes, including reoffending, surveillance, relationship formation, and access to opportunities. This book sheds crucial new light on the processes of reentry and desistance, tying them intimately to space and community, including dynamics around race, gender, gentrification, homelessness, and transportation.

Author: Andrea M. Leverentz
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 07/05/2022
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780520379411
ISBN10: 0520379411
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Criminology
- Law | Criminal Law | Sentencing
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban

About the Author

Andrea M. Leverentz is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma: How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance and coeditor of Beyond Recidivism: New Approaches to Research on Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration.