Inside the penal voluntary sector: Divided discourses of “helping” criminalized women

Quinn, Kaitlyn

doi:10.1177/1462474519863461

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“…further criminality, mobilizing adaptations that sometimes place her in unsafe scenarios) to fielding the shaming and stigmatizing questions involved in accessing some resettlement services. This example, in particular, illustrates the overlapping care and control functions of resettlement organizations (Maidment, 2006;Quinn, 2020) and highlights the negative implications for criminalized women's trust in, and thus willingness to access, services incorporating such elements of "control talk" (Pollack, 2009). Concerns about safety were compounded for the Indigenous women included in this research.…”

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confidence: 97%

Dispositions that matter: Investigating criminalized women’s resettlement through their (trans)carceral habitus

Quinn

2021

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Whether prisoner resettlement is framed in terms of public health, safety, economic prudence, recidivism, social justice, or humanitarianism, it is difficult to overstate its importance. This article investigates women’s experiences exiting prison in Canada to deepen understandings of post-carceral trajectories and their implications. It combines feminist work on transcarceration and Bourdieusian theory with qualitative research undertaken in Canada to propose the (trans)carceral habitus as a theoretical innovation. This research illuminates the continuity of criminalized women’s marginalization before and beyond their imprisonment, the embodied nature of these experiences, and the adaptive dispositions that they have demonstrated and depended on throughout their lives. In doing so, this article extends criminological work on carceral habitus which has rarely considered the experiences of women. Implications for resettlement are discussed by tracing the impact of criminalized women’s (trans)carceral habitus (i.e. distrust, skepticism, vigilance about their environments and relationships) on their willingness to access support and services offered by resettlement organizations.

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Section: Embodying Concerns About Safetymentioning

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Dispositions that matter: Investigating criminalized women’s resettlement through their (trans)carceral habitus

Quinn

2021

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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“…PVS organizations undertake a variety of “social incorporation” functions with criminalized individuals (Kaufman, 2015), including providing housing support, employment counseling, and “soft” skills programming. Recent analyses have explored the diverse practices undertaken by PVS practitioners (e.g., Quinn, 2019; Salole, 2019; Tomczak & Buck, 2019) and the nature of PVS relationships with the state (e.g., Corcoran et al., 2018). Scholars are increasingly examining the PVS in jurisdictions around the world (e.g., Kaufman, 2015 in the US; Quirouette, 2021 in Canada).…”

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“How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story‐lines as emotion work

Quinn

Tomczak

Buck

2022

British Journal of Sociology

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The voluntary sector acts as the last line of defense for some of the most marginalized people in societies around the world, yet its capacities are significantly reduced by chronic resource shortages and dynamic political obstacles. Existing research has scarcely examined what it is like for voluntary sector practitioners working amidst these conditions. In this paper, we explore how penal voluntary sector practitioners across England and Scotland marshaled their personal and professional resources to “keep going” amidst significant challenges. Our analysis combines symbolic interactionism with the concept of story‐lines. We illuminate the narratives that practitioners mobilized to understand and motivate their efforts amidst the significant barriers, chronic limitations, and difficult emotions brought forth by their work. We position practitioners' story‐lines as a form of emotion work that mitigated their experiences of anger, frustration, overwhelm, sadness, and disappointment, enabling them to move forward and continue to support criminalized individuals. Our analysis details three story‐lines—resignation, strategy, and refuge—and examines their consequences for practitioners and their capacities to intervene in wicked social problems.

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“…Inequalities such as these are the focus of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice (see Macmillan 2013;Quinn 2020 for applications of this theory for volunteering). It rests on four core concepts (Bourdieu 1977(Bourdieu , 1984(Bourdieu , 1986b: (1) social fields, (2) rules of the game, i.e., structures of the field, (3) capital, i.e., cultural, social and economic resources of actors, and (4) the actor's habitus.…”

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Who Is in Charge? Social Inequality in Different Fields of Volunteering

Meyer

Rameder

2021

Voluntas

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Volunteering in civil society organizations (CSOs) is sometimes idealized as welcoming arena for everybody. Prior research, however, has shown that participation in volunteer work depends on gender, wealth, education, and social networks, suggesting that CSOs are not in fact open to everyone. Inequality within different fields of volunteering combined with the factors that put actors into more powerful positions has rarely been scrutinized. Besides identifying the characteristics and resources relevant for promotion, we primarily investigate how these patterns differ between four subfields: politics, social services, religion, and sports. We analyzed a large database created from the Austrian micro-census. The findings reveal significant relations between the actors’ gender, their occupational and educational status, and their hierarchical positions in CSOs within each of the subfields. Our results indicate that the extent to which social inequality spills over to volunteering depends on field characteristics: In the fields of sports and politics, occupational status plays a major role, while in the fields of religion and social services, educational status is more important. We explain these differences through organizational and individual factors that characterize these social fields.

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Inside the penal voluntary sector: Divided discourses of “helping” criminalized women

Cited by 20 publications

References 44 publications

Dispositions that matter: Investigating criminalized women’s resettlement through their (trans)carceral habitus

Dispositions that matter: Investigating criminalized women’s resettlement through their (trans)carceral habitus

“How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story‐lines as emotion work

Who Is in Charge? Social Inequality in Different Fields of Volunteering

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