This thesis reexamines the site of the Japanese American Incarceration Camps of World War II as a site of architectural precedent. The Camps occupy what has become a quiet chapter in the history textbook, often regarded as an eccentric aberration within American history. Yet the…
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This dissertation examines the mediation of the public’s encounters with recordings of field hollers, work songs, and blues music collected by the folklorists John and Alan Lomax in prisons of the U.S. South from the 1930s to the 1950s. These recordings have, over the years, rea…
Research on loss has found that there are correlations between loss and individual factors in a persons’ life, such as substance use (Johnson, 2012; Vaswani, 2008; Zinzow et al., 2009), mental health symptomology (Godfrey, 2017; Harner, Hentz, & Evangalista, 2011), adverse child…
The rising rate of women's incarceration over the past four decades has presented unique challenges for re-entry practitioners and policymakers alike. A record number of incarcerated women means a high number will also be returning to their communities. Further research that cen…
Reducing recidivism for drug offenders has been a challenge in Singapore since the late 1990s, when there was a spike in reentry into the system. In the year 2000, resources were invested in rehabilitation and reintegration programs to bring a reduction to the recidivism rate, b…
‘From the river to the sea’ is a study of the practices of incarceration mobilized by the Israeli state over the 1967 Occupied Palestinian Territories, or OPT. This study investigates the notion of occupation as an ‘open-air prison’ through subaltern geopolitics. Through intervi…
Although prior research has looked at the role of intimate relationships and desistance from crime, fewer have considered how involvement in the criminal justice system affect high-quality intimate relationships. Formal contact with the criminal justice system (i.e., arrest or i…
The current incarceration rate is at an historic high, with more than 1 in every 100 adults serving time in Federal and State prisons (Pew Center on the States, 2010). With more than half of all incarcerated adults in the United States being parents, many children are directly a…