Transitions in identity, belonging, and citizenship and the possibilities of inclusion for women leaving prison: implications for therapeutic recreation

Fortune, Darla; Yuen, Felice

doi:10.1080/14927713.2015.1086587

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“…Maruna (2017) has argued that desistance needs to become a social movement, similar to recovery movements in relation to mental health and addiction, in which campaigners with criminal convictions challenge the stigma attached to this. Alongside this, it might be possible to create places of belonging in the world outside (Curtis and Mee, 2012; Fortune and Yuen, 2015). Innovative projects that unite the challenging of stigma and providing a place of belonging are springing up.…”

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Persistent short-term imprisonment: Belonging as a lens to understand its shifting meanings over the life course

Schinkel

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2021

Incarceration

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This article takes a life-course perspective to the meaning of persistent short-term imprisonment and introduces the significance of ‘penal careers’. Examining a total of 62 interviews with men and women in Scotland with long careers of (progression through) criminal punishment, it uses to the concept of belonging as a lens to interpret their experiences. While some participants already felt early on in their career that they belonged in prison because of their shared characteristics with other prisoners, the repetition of imprisonment meant that they increasingly felt displaced from life outside and saw life in prison as ‘easier’ and ‘safer’. Nevertheless, looking back on their many sentences, they felt their cumulative meaning was ‘a waste of life’. The article concludes by considering steps towards tackling the conditions that create this sense of belonging in a place of punishment.

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Persistent short-term imprisonment: Belonging as a lens to understand its shifting meanings over the life course

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“…Looking through a social justice lens, Wise (2015) suggests that TR has an important role to play in facilitating equitable opportunities for leisure engagement. By taking a social justice approach to TR, those who are often marginalized in our society can experience inclusion and citizenship (Fortune & Yuen, 2015). For example, Eales and Goodwin (2015) show how an integrated dance program can be used to address social injustice and develop supportive, interdependent relationships.…”

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“…For example, Eales and Goodwin (2015) show how an integrated dance program can be used to address social injustice and develop supportive, interdependent relationships. Similarly, Fortune and Yuen (2015) report on a community arts program that promotes inclusion among formerly incarcerated women returning to the community, who typically experience exclusion. When TR practice is influenced by the principles of social justice, those who are often marginalized in our society can experience inclusion and citizenship (Fortune & Yuen, 2015).…”

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“…Similarly, Fortune and Yuen (2015) report on a community arts program that promotes inclusion among formerly incarcerated women returning to the community, who typically experience exclusion. When TR practice is influenced by the principles of social justice, those who are often marginalized in our society can experience inclusion and citizenship (Fortune & Yuen, 2015). However, whether or not these discourses influence the meanings TR professionals ascribe to TR is unclear.…”

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Meanings of therapeutic recreation: professionals’ perspectives

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“…people either. Colonial patriarchy and late-stage capitalism wreak havoc on the lives and wellbeing of many who face social isolation, exclusion, stigmatization, and harm across intersecting identities of ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality, disability, and age (Erevelles 2014, Fortune and Yuen 2015, Hopkin et al 2018, John Howard Society 2006, Kao et al 2014, Ortiz and Jackey 2019. The criminalization of poverty and the ongoing failure of the war on drugs and resulting punitive drug policies continue to leave a long wake of trauma and harm.…”

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Transformative Community: Gathering the Untold Stories of Collaborative Research and Community Re-integration for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, Post-Incarceration and Beyond

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The Canadian carceral system is purposefully designed to disconnect and isolate people. Ongoing colonialism in Canada at the intersection of carceral, social service, health and child welfare systems has resulted in the disproportionate and unjust representation of Indigenous Peoples across each stage of the penal process. Given the ongoing silencing of people who are or have been incarcerated, Participatory Action Research led by Peers with living experience of the carceral state and grounded in the wisdom of Indigenous Elders is urgently needed. In this context, a research network, called the Transformative Health & Justice Research Cluster (THJRC), based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, has formed to disrupt status quo research practices, bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peer Leaders, Elders, academics, community advocates and student trainees, and support the empowerment of people who have been incarcerated. In this reflective piece, Nicolas Crier, one of the THJRC Peer Leaders, will provide an overview of the who, what, why, when and how of the THJRC, reflecting on the impacts and strengths of the collaborative community in general, as well as within the specific context of COVID-19. Co-authors, representing diverse positionalities and perspectives within the THJRC, will weigh in when relevant.

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Transitions in identity, belonging, and citizenship and the possibilities of inclusion for women leaving prison: implications for therapeutic recreation

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Persistent short-term imprisonment: Belonging as a lens to understand its shifting meanings over the life course

Persistent short-term imprisonment: Belonging as a lens to understand its shifting meanings over the life course

Meanings of therapeutic recreation: professionals’ perspectives

Transformative Community: Gathering the Untold Stories of Collaborative Research and Community Re-integration for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, Post-Incarceration and Beyond

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