SOC301H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Parole Board Of Canada, Nippon Professional Baseball, Risk Governance
Document Summary
Transitions from prison to community are challenging for many women prisoners. Parole is one strategy for governing this transition. Scholarship on women and reintegration documents numerous barriers to re-entry, including finding house and employment, obtaining health care or social assistance, reuniting with children and families, managing addictions and dealing with the stigma of their criminalized status. Since 1992, with the enactment of the corrections and conditional release act, the federal system of parole in canada has shifted from rehabilitation to managing risk. Parole still assists with prisoner reintegration: primarily oriented towards ensuring public safety through techniques of surveillance and risk management. The npb (national parole board), often under advisement from correctional service of. Canada: determines which conditions will be attached to a prisoner"s parole release and also responsible for removing, adjusting or adding conditions post release. The female parolee is constituted as a fractured subject composed of various risk/need factors linked to criminal offending.
