Contextualizing parolee reintegration : narrative themes in community re-engagement in two cities in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This exploratory study focuses on the experiences of 18 parolees released after serving a federal sentence of over two years into two small cities in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada in terms of the supports and challenges they faced in reintegrating into communities where tolerance for ex-offenders was problematic. The study aims to provide hitherto unexamined aspects of reintegration issues from the point of view of the parolees themselves. Their interpretation of events and examination of the difficulties (and acceptance) they received in the two communities add a further dimension to discussions about successful reintegration and rebuilding of their lives after incarceration. To that end, semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed using a narrative approach that was informed by Shaw's (1930) study of the life-history in The Jack Roller and Maruna's (2001) psychosocial approach to desistance. The interviews, however, were analyzed in their entirety which kept parolee voices distinct and individual. Findings focus on three main areas: the ubiquity of transcarceral controls on parolees' lives and the impacts of generational cycles of loss and abandonment on the ability to reintegrate successfully; the impacts of mental health problems, addictions, unemployment and poverty on individual attempts to reintegrate; and the development of communities of choice within the Canadian "Metis nation" as described by Saul (2008). Related issues include the pressure to remain "invisible", a permanent "outsider", in communities upon release, and definition of successful reintegration or desistance in terms of a continuum rather than a dichotomy of "criminal"/"law-abiding citizen".
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.036 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".