Doing time on the outside : deconstructing the benevolent community / Madonna R. Maidment.

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Doing Time on the Outside fills a gap in the research by focusing on the experiences of women on conditional release, and attempting to understand how some criminalized women avoid going back into custody given the many challenges they face.

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Maidment (Guelph Univ.) offers a refreshing antidote to iatrogenic neoliberal and conservative research that serves primarily as apologia for the (in)justice prison industry complex in Canada, with parallels drawn to the US. Questioning taken-for-granted assumptions about criminalized women and recidivism, Maidment uses standpoint feminism theory to guide her research methodology and analysis of her in-depth interviews with criminalized women. Her well-written report not only confirms the well-known pathways of poverty (and its intersection with race), sexual and physical abuse, histories of state controls, and defiance of gender roles leading to female criminalization and incarceration, but also adds four important new findings connected to widening the discourse. For example, the more layers of social control, including those found in "community" corrections, that women have experienced throughout their lives, the more likely that they will return to prison. Also, women's definitions of success and failure in terms of recidivism do not coincide with official definitions. A must read. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. K. Baird-Olson California State University--Northridge