NCJ Number
222881
Journal
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation Volume: 46 Issue: 1/2 Dated: 2007 Pages: 133-162
Date Published
2007
Length
30 pages
Annotation
This article attempts to develop a framework addressing the resocialization needs of male incarcerates and confined mothers, and proposes a reintegration strategy built around several psychosocial adjustments that must occur for successful reentry.
Abstract
The reintegration strategy is based on a psychosocial developmental model of resocialization grounded in several insights derived from peacemaking, radical, and cultural criminology. The resocialization model, coupled with its assorted conceptual features, is fitted to the issue of community reentry for male incarcerates and confined mothers. This proposed strategy represents a blueprint for reintegration. The principal concern entertained in this article is one of creating a viable conceptual framework within which the construct of reentry can be subsequently tested empirically. The article is divided into four substantive sections. First, the breadth of the reentry problem is summarily delineated, including prospects for and problems with reintegration impacting male incarcerates and confined mothers. Second, an eight-stage model for achieving successful resocialization or recommunalization as developed in the homeless studies literature is outlined. This entails an analysis of the reentry model’s grounding in conceptual insights derived from peacemaking, anarchist, and cultural criminology. Third, the application of the eight-stage resocialization model along with its conceptual features is linked to the two ex-offender groups examined in the article. Fourth, the implications stemming from this application work are tentatively explored which includes a provisional assessment of whether the lessons learned from housing the homeless can meaningfully advance research, programming, and policy efforts targeted towards ex-offender community reintegration. Tables and references