VII. Transcarceration and the Production of “Grey space”: How Frontline Workers exercise spatial Practices in a Halfway House for Women

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INTRODUCTION Critical studies of criminal justice networks have established that community correctional institutions, such as halfway houses, contribute to the expansion of the carceral net, an effect that has been conceptualized as “transcarceration” (see Lowman, Menzies, and Palys 1987; and Maidment 2006a). Contractual, professional and social relationships linking halfway houses, and medical and social work institutions, to corrections form transcarceral bonds, which are primarily facilita..