Offender reentry : beyond crime & punishment / Elaine Gunnison, Jacqueline B. Helfgott.

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This book should be required reading for all advocates for the "culture of control," as it offers considerable support for recent moves within the community corrections systems toward giving offenders the benefit of the doubt. The authors (both, Seattle Univ.) should be congratulated for bringing together and making clear the rich range of statistical data that clearly establishes the perennial difficulties involved in achieving "successful reintegration." They identify barriers consistently applied according to class, race, and gender, and are especially good in discussing the invisible punishment people are likely to endure post-release. Of course, their object in describing the revolving-door syndrome is the laudable one of suggesting policies that might block it a little. Hence, there is positive reference to providing basic needs such as housing and employment, and ensuring appropriate and targeted treatment. Arguably, however, the authors fail to acknowledge that an alternative way of understanding criminal justice is to focus on the ideological implications of the outcomes they describe so powerfully, outcomes that reproduce the exclusion of already marginalized groups. While it may be rewarding to find ways for individuals to be reintegrated, the next generation of social scapegoats is on its way. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All social science students, professionals, practitioners, and general readers. C. Powell University of Southern Maine