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  • Exiled in America

    Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel

    Series series Studies in Transgression
    Residential motels have long been places of last resort for many vulnerable Americans—released prisoners, people with disabilities or mental illness, struggling addicts, the recently homeless, and the working poor. Cast aside by their families and mainstream society, they survive in squalid, unsafe, and demeaning circumstances that few of us can imagine.For a year, the sociologist Christopher P. ... Read more

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  • Handbook on Lived Experience in the Justice System

    Series series The ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Handbook Series
    This volume offers a diverse set of scholarly essays on the imaginative potential of corrections and sentencing research/practice that centers on the lived experience of the criminal legal system. The Editors define “lived experience” broadly, encompassing the subjective ways in which corrections and sentencing directly or indirectly affect a person’s daily life. They employ a diverse and ... Read more

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