Author: Daniel Vannorman LucasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Australia and Homeward
Author: Daniel Vannorman LucasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Homeward
Author: Bruce WesternPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610448715
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments rife with violence. In these circumstances, how do former prisoners navigate reentering society? In Homeward, sociologist Bruce Western examines the tumultuous first year after release from prison. Drawing from in-depth interviews with over one hundred individuals, he describes the lives of the formerly incarcerated and demonstrates how poverty, racial inequality, and failures of social support trap many in a cycle of vulnerability despite their efforts to rejoin society. Western and his research team conducted comprehensive interviews with men and women released from the Massachusetts state prison system who returned to neighborhoods around Boston. Western finds that for most, leaving prison is associated with acute material hardship. In the first year after prison, most respondents could not afford their own housing and relied on family support and government programs, with half living in deep poverty. Many struggled with chronic pain, mental illnesses, or addiction—the most important predictor of recidivism. Most respondents were also unemployed. Some older white men found union jobs in the construction industry through their social networks, but many others, particularly those who were black or Latino, were unable to obtain full-time work due to few social connections to good jobs, discrimination, and lack of credentials. Violence was common in their lives, and often preceded their incarceration. In contrast to the stereotype of tough criminals preying upon helpless citizens, Western shows that many former prisoners were themselves subject to lifetimes of violence and abuse and encountered more violence after leaving prison, blurring the line between victims and perpetrators. Western concludes that boosting the social integration of former prisoners is key to both ameliorating deep disadvantage and strengthening public safety. He advocates policies that increase assistance to those in their first year after prison, including guaranteed housing and health care, drug treatment, and transitional employment. By foregrounding the stories of people struggling against the odds to exit the criminal justice system, Homeward shows how overhauling the process of prisoner reentry and rethinking the foundations of justice policy could address the harms of mass incarceration.
Australia and the East
Author: John HoodPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
"The author went out to Sydney in the Lady Kennaway, 584 tons. He gives an interesting account of New South Wales in the late thirties under the administration of Sir George Gipps."--Abebooks website
Historical Records of Australia
Author: Australia. Parliament. Joint Library CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Official records of the settlement and administration of Australian colonies and Port Essington; many Aboriginal references.
Australia for the Consumptive Invalid
Author: Isaac Baker BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Australia and Homeward
Author: Daniel Vannorman LucasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Horlick's Magazine and Home Journal for Australia, India and the Colonies
Author: Australia To-day
Author: A Brief History of Australia
Author: Barbara A. WestPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816078858
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Basic facts, a chronology, a bibliography, and a list of suggested reading make up the appendixes. --Book Jacket.
Homeward
Author: Soibam Haripriya, (ed.)Publisher: Zubaan
ISBN: 939051438X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In Homeward, Soibam Haripriya brings together writers, artists, poets and photographers to question presumptions of home, the idea of a homeland and, by extension, the nation. Articulating and imagining the meanings of home, one’s own or those of others, is often an act of confronting one’s vulnerability. Metaphorical or real, homes are necessarily messy worlds that inevitably collide and telescope into each other as their geographical boundaries often intersect and overlap. The contributors to this volume, in their different ways, upend the idea of home as a unit of stability, familiarity and familial-ity, emptying out its significance as a place of nostalgic refuge to which one can always return. The ostensibly common universal idea of home is often unhinged, they show, by the conditions of violence that underpin relations within that space. Focusing largely on the Northeastern region, often bound together in some way, ethnically and geographically, this anthology illuminates how political climate as well as geographic sites transform homes. How then may we re-imagine home when its significance as a space and place of refuge loses meaning. Homeward engages with the boundaries and constraints imposed by messy cartographies and attempts to evoke a poetics of space through the act of writing.