In a Box: Gender-Responsive Reform, Mass Community Supervision, and Neoliberal Policies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520393516)

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.


Author: Merry Morash
ISBN-10: 0520393511
ISBN-13: 9780520393516
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/13/2024
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d