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作者

来源

JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY,Vol.48,Issue3,P.311-338

语言

英文

关键字

parole and probation; gender; discretion; working alliance; PRISON OFFICERS; FEELING RULES; EMOTION WORK; PAROLE; PROBATION; PENOLOGY; REENTRY; STATE; REHABILITATION; NARRATIVES

作者单位

[Welsh, Megan] San Diego State Univ, Sch Publ Affairs, 5500 Campanile Dr, San Diego, CA 92182 USA. Welsh, M (reprint author), San Diego State Univ, Sch Publ Affairs, 5500 Campanile Dr, San Diego, CA 92182 USA. E-Mail: mwelsh@sdsu.edu

摘要

Tasked with a fractured institutional mandate of ensuring public safety while facilitating the rehabilitation of their criminalized clients, community supervision workers exercise a considerable amount of discretion in how to achieve these goals. Yet much remains unknown about these workers' strategies for doing so, which are informed by experiential knowledge and social identities-what I call the "personal touch." Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with California state parole agents and county probation officers as part of a larger ethnographic inquiry of prisoner reentry, I apply a feminist lens to analyze how workers leverage personal aspects of themselves that they value to manage the impossibilities of their work. My findings show how workers employ a personal touch to connect with clients in meaningful ways, but also how these approaches are built on normative assumptions about gender.