Andrea Margaret Leverentz

Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition

Leverentz, A. (2024, August 30). SOCIAL FORCES, Vol. 8.

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.

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.

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.

Interview Location as Data

Leverentz, A. (2023, November 7). QUALITATIVE SOCIOLOGY, Vol. 11.

’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.

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.

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.

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.

Intersecting Lives

Interview location as data

American Society of Criminology. Presented at the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA.

Conversational Interviewing

Leverentz, A. (2021, August). The Encyclopedia of Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice, pp. 381–385.

Ethnographies on Prisoner Reentry

5. Interviewing the “Rabble Class”: Recruitment and Retention in Studies of Prisoner Reentry

In Beyond Recidivism (pp. 100–132).

Beyond Recidivism

Fostering Family Relationships and Women’s Employment

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy.

Beyond Neighborhoods: Activity Spaces of Returning Prisoners

Social Problems, 3.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Gender and Crime

Leverentz, A. (2018, June). The Handbook of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice, pp. 435–455.

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.

Place and Perception: Constructions of Community and Safety across Neighborhoods and Residents

City and Community, 17(4), 972–995.

CONTEXTUALIZING COMMUNITY CRIME CONTROL: RACE, GEOGRAPHY, AND CONFIGURATIONS OF CONTROL IN FOUR COMMUNITIES*

Criminology, 55(1), 112–136.

Violence Breeding Violence

Contemporary Sociology, 46(1), 18–22.

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.

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.

In It for the Long Haul: Exploring Gender Dynamics in Former Prisoner-Family Relationship

Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology, 4.

New Parochialism and community dynamics: Benefits and possible collateral consequences leverentz community investment

Criminology and Public Policy, 13(2), 217–224.

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

People, places, and things: How female ex-prisoners negotiate their neighborhood context

In Girls, Women, and Crime: Selected Readings (pp. 229–250).

Narratives of Crime and Criminals: How Places Socially Construct the Crime Problem

Sociological Forum, 27(2), 348–371.

Barriers to Reintegration

Rethinking Corrections: Rehabilitation, Reentry, and Reintegration, pp. 359–382.

Being a good daughter and sister: Families of origin in the reentry of African American female ex-prisoners

Feminist Criminology, 6(4), 239–267.

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.

Neighborhood context of attitudes toward crime and reentry

Punishment and Society, 13(1), 64–92.

Official corruption during China's economic transition: Historical patterns, characteristics, and government reactions

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 26(1), 72–88.

People, places, and things: How female ex-prisoners negotiate their neighborhood context

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 39(6), 646–681.

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.

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).

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.