In a Box: Gender-Responsive Reform, Mass Community Supervision, and Neoliberal Policies

by Merry Morash

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520393503
• ISBN13: 9780520393509
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"