Works (42)
2024 article
Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition
Leverentz, A. (2024, August 30). SOCIAL FORCES, Vol. 8.
2023 conference paper
Author-Meets-Critics for Intersecting Lives (Critics: Julia Burdick-Will, Brian Soller, Sara Wakefield)
Eastern Sociological Society. Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, MD.
2023 conference paper
Critic, Author-Meets-Critics for Geniece Crawford Mondé’s This is Our Freedom: Motherhood in the Shadow of the American Prison System
American Society of Criminology. Presented at the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, PA.
2023 conference paper
I started making some very bad choices: Making sense of narratives of desistance failures
American Sociological Association. Presented at the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
2023 article
Interview Location as Data
Leverentz, A. (2023, November 7). QUALITATIVE SOCIOLOGY, Vol. 11.
2023 conference paper
’I just feel down. That's what it is. I'm nervous’: Perceptions of reentry by those experiencing it
American Society of Criminology. Presented at the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, PA.
2022 book review
After Prison: Navigating Adulthood in the Shadow of the Justice System</i>. By David J. Harding and Heather M. Harris. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2020. Pp. xv+333. $37.50 (paper).
[Review of After Prison: Navigating Adulthood in the Shadow of the Justice System, by D. J. Harding & H. M. Harris]. American Journal of Sociology, 127(4), 1383–1385.
2022 conference paper
Author-Meets-Critics for Intersecting Lives (Critics: Jerry Flores, David Kirk, and Venezia Michalson)
American Society of Criminology. Presented at the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA.
2022 conference paper
Critic, Author-Meets-Critics for Janet Garcia-Hallett’s Invisible Mothers: Unseen Yet Hypervisible after Incarceration
American Society of Criminology. Presented at the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA.
2022 book
Intersecting Lives
2022 conference paper
Interview location as data
American Society of Criminology. Presented at the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA.
2021 article
Conversational Interviewing
Leverentz, A. (2021, August). The Encyclopedia of Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice, pp. 381–385.

2021 chapter book
Ethnographies on Prisoner Reentry

2020 chapter
5. Interviewing the “Rabble Class”: Recruitment and Retention in Studies of Prisoner Reentry
In Beyond Recidivism (pp. 100–132).

2020 book
2020 journal article
Fostering Family Relationships and Women’s Employment
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy.

2019 journal article
Beyond Neighborhoods: Activity Spaces of Returning Prisoners
Social Problems, 3.
2019 book review
Book review: Alexandra Cox, <i>Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People
[Review of Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People, by A. Cox]. Theoretical Criminology, 23(4), 569–571.
2019 book review
Homeward: Life in the Year after Prison
[Review of Homeward: Life in the Year after Prison, by B. Western]. American Journal of Sociology, 125(3), 910–912.
2019 book review
Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity
[Review of Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral identity, by P. Lopez-Aguado]. Social Forces, 97(4), e1–e3.

2018 chapter
Churning through the system: How people engage with the criminal justice system when faced with short sentences
In Studies in Law Politics and Society (Vol. 77, pp. 123–143).
2018 article
Gender and Crime
Leverentz, A. (2018, June). The Handbook of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice, pp. 435–455.

2018 book review
Lora Bex Lempert, <i>Women Doing Life: Gender, Punishment, and the Struggle for Identity
[Review of Women Doing Life: Gender, Punishment, and the Struggle for Identity, by L. Lempert]. Punishment & Society, 21(3), 387–389.

2018 journal article
Place and Perception: Constructions of Community and Safety across Neighborhoods and Residents
City and Community, 17(4), 972–995.
2017 journal article
CONTEXTUALIZING COMMUNITY CRIME CONTROL: RACE, GEOGRAPHY, AND CONFIGURATIONS OF CONTROL IN FOUR COMMUNITIES*
Criminology, 55(1), 112–136.
2017 journal article

2015 book review
Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility</i>. By Susan Starr Sered and Maureen Norton-Hawk. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2014. Pp. xiv+216. $29.95.
[Review of Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility, by S. Sered & M. Norton-Hawk]. American Journal of Sociology, 121(3), 1002–1004.

2015 book review
Women Exiting Prison: Critical Essays on Gender, Post-Release Support and Survival
[Review of Women Exiting Prison: Critical Essays on Gender, Post-Release Support and Survival, by B. Carlton & M. Segrave]. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 44(5), 640–642.

2014 journal article
In It for the Long Haul: Exploring Gender Dynamics in Former Prisoner-Family Relationship
Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology, 4.

2014 journal article
New Parochialism and community dynamics: Benefits and possible collateral consequences leverentz community investment
Criminology and Public Policy, 13(2), 217–224.

2014 book
The Ex-prisoner's dilemma: How women negotiate competing narratives of reentry and desistance
In The Ex-prisoner's Dilemma: How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance (pp. 1–236). http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84944568532&partnerID=MN8TOARS
2013 chapter
People, places, and things: How female ex-prisoners negotiate their neighborhood context
In Girls, Women, and Crime: Selected Readings (pp. 229–250).

2012 journal article
Narratives of Crime and Criminals: How Places Socially Construct the Crime Problem
Sociological Forum, 27(2), 348–371.
2011 article
Barriers to Reintegration
Rethinking Corrections: Rehabilitation, Reentry, and Reintegration, pp. 359–382.

2011 journal article
Being a good daughter and sister: Families of origin in the reentry of African American female ex-prisoners
Feminist Criminology, 6(4), 239–267.

2011 book review
Helen Codd, In the Shadow of Prison: Families, Imprisonment, and Criminal Justice
[Review of In the Shadow of Prison: Families, Imprisonment, and Criminal Justice, by H. Codd]. Punishment & Society, 13(4), 491–492.

2011 journal article
Neighborhood context of attitudes toward crime and reentry
Punishment and Society, 13(1), 64–92.

2010 journal article
Official corruption during China's economic transition: Historical patterns, characteristics, and government reactions
Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 26(1), 72–88.
Contributors: X. Deng *, L. Zhang * & *

2010 journal article
People, places, and things: How female ex-prisoners negotiate their neighborhood context
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 39(6), 646–681.
2009 book review
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration. By Devah Pager. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+248. $25.00.
[Review of Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration, by D. Pager]. American Journal of Sociology, 114(6), 1849–1851.

2009 chapter
The dual system of land use policy and its related problems in contemporary China
In China in an Era of Transition: Understanding Contemporary State and Society Actors (pp. 79–101).
2006 journal article
The love of a good man? Romantic relationships as a source of support or hindrance for female ex-offenders
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 43(4), 459–488.

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