Parole and Beyond : International Experiences of Life After Prison

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This title provides an assessment of contemporary international knowledge about the experiences of life after release from prison. For over 100 years people leaving prison have been supervised by probation services, but little has been written about how those who are supervised experience this process, or how this process influences experiences post-release. Abstract: This title provides an assessment of contemporary international knowledge about the experiences of life after release from prison. For over 100 years people leaving prison have been supervised by probation services, but little has been written about how those who are supervised experience this process, or how this process influences experiences post-release Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Parole and Beyond: International Experiences of Life After Prison (Ruth Armstrong, Ioan Durnescu)....Pages 1-18 Experiencing Supervision in England—On Licence and on Community Sentences (Joanna Shapland, Angela Sorsby, Stephen Farrall, Camilla Priede)....Pages 19-47 Released from Prison in Denmark: Experiences vs. Ambitions (Annette Olesen, Anette Storgaard)....Pages 49-76 Walk the Line: Assessing Prison Conduct for Parole in the Netherlands (Maaike M. Beckmann)....Pages 77-104 Living in Faith on Parole in Bible Belt USA (Ruth Armstrong)....Pages 105-139 Breaking the Rules the Right Way: Resisting Parole Logics and Asserting Autonomy in the USA (Robert Werth)....Pages 141-169 Prisoner (Dis)Integration in Australia: Three Stories of Parole and Community Supervision (Mark Halsey)....Pages 171-190 The Law, Practice and Experience of ‘Conditional Freedom’ in Chile: No Man’s Land (Carolina Villagra, Catalina Droppelmann)....Pages 191-218 Experiences of Parole in Scotland: Stalled Lives (Marguerite Schinkel)....Pages 219-242 Exacerbating Deprivation: Trajectories of Confinement in Sierra Leone (Andrew M. Jefferson)....Pages 243-269 Routes to Freedom: Romanian and Roma Prisoners Finding their Way Back into the Romanian Society (Ioan Durnescu, Andrada Istrate, Cristina Teoroc, Elena Pitiu, Lucian Rotariu)....Pages 271-301 Editors Afterword: Ground Level Listening and Learning (Ruth Armstrong, Ioan Durnescu)....Pages 303-314 Back Matter ....Pages 315-319