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British Journal of Criminology Advance Access published online on April 21, 2009
British Journal of Criminology, doi:10.1093/bjc/azp015
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The British Journal of Criminology 0:azp015 (2009)
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UNDER THESE CONDITIONS

Gender, Parole and the Governance of Reintegration

Sarah Turnbull and Kelly Hannah-Moffat*

* Sarah Turnbull, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, 14 Queen's Park Crescent West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3K9; sarah.turnbull{at}utoronto.ca.

Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga, South Building, Room 2097, 3359 Mississauga Road North, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, L5L 1C6; hannah.moffat{at}utoronto.ca.


  Abstract

Despite the widespread use of conditions in various phases of the criminal justice system (e.g. bail, probation, parole), there has been little theoretical examination of their purposes or the implications associated with their use. This paper extends the theoretical discussion of women prisoners' reintegration by focusing on parole conditions as a form of ‘targeted governance’. Using national data on federally sentenced female offenders in Canada, it shows how parole boards constitute the female parolee as a fractured subject consisting of various ‘risk/need factors’ to which parole conditions are applied. It also considers how conditions are techniques of targeted governance that exemplify an integrated exercise of penal power, which is simultaneously productive and repressive: conditions help prepare women prisoners for ‘freedom’ on parole by mobilizing particular techniques of self-governance, while at the same time operate as modes of surveillance that police the boundaries of acceptable conduct.


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