University of Maine at Farmington, 246 Main Street Farmington, Maine 04938-1994, USA.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2011 Jul-Aug;34(4):256-63. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2011.07.003. Epub 2011 Aug 24.
Much of the mental health, substance use, and educational programming within a particular women's prison in the southwestern United States promotes individual choice and agency. Incarcerated women from rural areas are told that their ability to succeed outside of prison is primarily dependent upon their personal choices. Comparably little attention is given to preparing women for their upcoming release or to overcoming structural barriers that could undermine successful reentry within rural communities. As a result, these returning citizens, many of whom grapple with mental illness and alcohol or drug dependence, blame themselves for their inability to surmount these barriers. In this qualitative research, we draw upon the perspectives of 99 incarcerated women to clarify how ideologies of individual choice promulgated in reentry pedagogy clash with contextual factors within rural communities to derail the reentry process. We also consider community reentry from Amartya Sen's capabilities framework and discuss how this model could inform needed interventions.
美国西南部一个特定女子监狱内的大部分心理健康、物质使用和教育项目都提倡个人选择和自主权。来自农村地区的被监禁妇女被告知，她们在监狱外取得成功的能力主要取决于她们的个人选择。比较少的关注是为妇女即将出狱做准备，或克服可能破坏她们在农村社区成功重新融入社会的结构性障碍。因此，这些返回家园的公民，其中许多人患有精神疾病，酗酒或吸毒成瘾，将自己无法克服这些障碍归咎于自己。在这项定性研究中，我们借鉴了 99 名被监禁妇女的观点，以阐明重新融入社会教育学中宣扬的个人选择理念如何与农村社区的背景因素发生冲突，从而破坏重新融入社会的过程。我们还从阿玛蒂亚·森的能力框架来考虑社区重新融入问题，并讨论该模型如何为所需的干预措施提供信息。
