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Written by scholars who have practical experience in corrections, the readable essays in this one-of-a-kind collection draw on real-world experiences to illustrate theoretical and methodological concepts and demonstrate approaches to corrections practice. Spanning the three general types of correctional environments—incarceration, community corrections, and juvenile corrections—the essays discuss working in prisons or prison systems, juvenile residential and community corrections, and probation and parole.
Presentence Officers as Beasts of Burden: Coping with Drug Mule Cases in an Age of Punitive Sentencing
Presentence Officers as Beasts of Burden: Coping with Drug Mule Cases in an Age of Punitive Sentencing
Editor's Introduction: Professor Strobl worked as a federal presentence officer, a type of probation officer. She discusses the challenges of sanctioning drug couriers, often called “drug mules” because they are used to transport illegal drugs on their person, often across borders. Many couriers in Strobl's caseload were impoverished women from different countries who in many ways were victims, while the law tended to treat them simply as offenders. Placing corrections in a global context, she identifies the part that political-economic globalization and inequality plays in making low-income women more vulnerable to ...
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