SOC311H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Marshall Project, Habilitation, Class Discrimination
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11:09 am: how interaction with the legal system has long lasting affects/consequences. What is prisoner re-entry: the process of leaving prison and returning to society, petersilia - all activities and programming conducted to prepare ex convicts to return safely to the community, turner - 3 phase process. Why study prisoner re-entry: 93% of all prisoners are eventually released, it is something that is happening all of the time, approx. Terminology and the importance of language: inmate, prisoner, other: nomenclatures are important and exist to clarify the world around us, the marshall project - how to refer to people behind bars. 38% preferred incarcerated person, 23% preferred prisoner, 10% preferred inmate. Allows them to defines themselves as who they are outside of prison. Just because you did something in the past, doesn"t mean that should always be your label. Begin to believe you are that label. Obscures other parts of an individuals identity. Frames certain groups as invisible or dispensable.
