Andrea Leverentz
Biographic Data
| ID | 110735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Leverentz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Leverentz |
| SIGNATURE | LEVERENTZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8985-3311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Roadblocks to Cultivating Change: A Systems Level Analysis of Restorative Justice in Higher Education
In this article, we explore challenges to the creation of restorative universities. Drawing upon interviews with staff, faculty, and administrators at one US university campus, we discuss how loose coupling in higher education (Weick, 1976), and the nature of higher education as a porous institution (Ellis, 2021), make establishing a restorative campus difficult. In our analysis, we explore how divergent understandings of restorative justice, cha…
Interview Location as Data
Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry
Introduction -- Criminalizing disadvantage : race, class, gender, and reentry in Boston -- Bouncing and the black box of reentry's neighborhood effects -- Dorchester : returning to a "high crime" neighborhood -- The South End : returning to a "gentrified" neighborhood -- South Boston : returning to a "white" neighborhood -- Small towns, poverty, and addiction -- Conclusion -- Appendix A : methods -- Appendix B : research participants.
Beyond Recidivism: New Approaches to Research on Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration
Although there are some indicators of a recent deceleration, and even, in some states, reversal, of the recent growth of the US incarcerated populations, the past few decades of “tough-on-crime” policies have resulted in the incarceration of millions of individuals. An inevitable consequence is that most imprisoned individuals are released, reentering society. Research about prisoner reentry has advanced significantly across fields in the last de…
The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma: How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance
When a woman leaves prison, she enters a world of competing messages and conflicting advice. Staff from prison, friends, family members, workers at halfway houses and treatment programs all have something to say about who she is, who she should be, and what she should do. The Ex-Prisoner’s Dilemma offers an in-depth, firsthand look at how the former prisoner manages messages about returning to the community. Over the course of a year, Andrea Leve…
Beyond Neighborhoods: Activity Spaces of Returning Prisoners
Neighborhood and place are key concerns in prisoner reentry and desistance literature. Residential change may serve as a turning point for those who want to desist from offending or minimize visibility as a “known” offender by law enforcement and neighbors. Yet choices of where to live are often dictated more by limited housing options than by preferred neighborhood characteristics. In addition, people are more or less stably housed upon release,…
Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity
Stick Together and Come Back Home details the ways in which the carceral social order, in which people in carceral spaces are sorted into groups based on race, geography, and social networks, shapes not only the prison and juvenile detention experiences but also the communities from which many criminalized people are drawn. In California, this sorting is not just a product of prison gangs and their feuds, but is an institutionalized practice, in …
Homeward: Life in the Year after Prison
Place and Perception: Constructions of Community and Safety across Neighborhoods and Residents
Residents of urban neighborhoods derive a sense of place and connection to their neighborhoods through their engagement with the neighborhood, including both the people in it and its amenities. In addition, one's perception of a neighborhood shapes one's sense of safety and fear of crime. In this paper, we analyze data from 84 interviews with residents in three Boston neighborhoods that varied on demographics, crime levels, and association to ste…
Lora Bex Lempert, Women Doing Life: Gender, Punishment, and the Struggle for Identity
Contextualizing Community Crime Control: Race, Geography, and Configurations of Control in Four Communities
Criminology and urban sociology have long‐standing interests in how neighborhoods and communities respond to and control crime. We build on the literature on social disorganization, collective efficacy, and new parochialism to develop a framework that explains how and why communities respond differently to crime. We draw on more than 2 years of comparative ethnographic data and 56 resident and stakeholder interviews on responses to crime in four …
Violence Breeding Violence
Women Exiting Prison: Critical Essays on Gender, Post-Release Support and Survival
New Parochialism and Community Dynamics: Benefits and Possible Collateral Consequences
Narratives of Crime and Criminals: How Places Socially Construct the Crime Problem 1
A common narrative about crime in the contemporary United States is that offenders are primarily young black men living in poor urban neighborhoods committing violent and drug‐related crimes. There is also a local context to community, crime, and fear that influences this narrative. In this article, I address how narratives of crime and criminals play out differently within particular places. The article is based on participant observation and in…
Being a Good Daughter and Sister: Families of Origin in the Reentry of African American Female Ex-Prisoners
Family has long been central to our understandings of offending and desistance. However, in research on adult offenders or prisoners, the focus is more often on romantic partners, children, and peers than on families of origin. This article underscores the continuing importance of families of origin in the reentry and desistance processes of urban female African American former prisoners and probationers. The author demonstrates that these relati…
Neighborhood context of attitudes toward crime and reentry
While much recent attention has been focused on the impact of incarceration on ex-prisoners, less has been paid to the general public’s informal attitudes and responses to crime and offenders. This article begins to fill this void by exploring the impact of individual and neighborhood characteristics on attitudes toward crime and prisoner reentry. The article is based on two phases of data collection. During phase one, residents of four Massachus…
Helen Codd, In the Shadow of Prison: Families, Imprisonment, and Criminal Justice
People, Places, and Things: How Female Ex-Prisoners Negotiate Their Neighborhood Context
While many prisoners share the public and policy makers' concerns about returning to their former neighborhood when they are released from prison, recently released ex-prisoners often do not have the resources to move to a new neighborhood. Using multiple in-depth interviews with female ex-prisoners in Chicago, the author addresses how these women frame their often disadvantaged and racially segregated neighborhood contexts so that they are consi…
The Love of a Good Man? Romantic Relationships as a Source of Support or Hindrance for Female Ex-Offenders
This article explores the impact of romantic relationships on the reentry experiences of female ex-offenders. Although attachment to a prosocial spouse is an important social bond in the desistance of male offenders, male and female offenders have different offending and life experiences and are likely to draw romantic partners from very different groups. This article addresses this issue through an analysis of qualitative interviews with 49 fema…
Narratives of Crime and Criminals: How Places Socially Construct the Crime Problem 1
A common narrative about crime in the contemporary United States is that offenders are primarily young black men living in poor urban neighborhoods committing violent and drug‐related crimes. There is also a local context to community, crime, and fear that influences this narrative. In this article, I address how narratives of crime and criminals play out differently within particular places. The article is based on participant observation and in…
People, Places, and Things: How Female Ex-Prisoners Negotiate Their Neighborhood Context
While many prisoners share the public and policy makers' concerns about returning to their former neighborhood when they are released from prison, recently released ex-prisoners often do not have the resources to move to a new neighborhood. Using multiple in-depth interviews with female ex-prisoners in Chicago, the author addresses how these women frame their often disadvantaged and racially segregated neighborhood contexts so that they are consi…
Neighborhood context of attitudes toward crime and reentry
While much recent attention has been focused on the impact of incarceration on ex-prisoners, less has been paid to the general public’s informal attitudes and responses to crime and offenders. This article begins to fill this void by exploring the impact of individual and neighborhood characteristics on attitudes toward crime and prisoner reentry. The article is based on two phases of data collection. During phase one, residents of four Massachus…
Contextualizing Community Crime Control: Race, Geography, and Configurations of Control in Four Communities
Criminology and urban sociology have long‐standing interests in how neighborhoods and communities respond to and control crime. We build on the literature on social disorganization, collective efficacy, and new parochialism to develop a framework that explains how and why communities respond differently to crime. We draw on more than 2 years of comparative ethnographic data and 56 resident and stakeholder interviews on responses to crime in four …
Being a Good Daughter and Sister: Families of Origin in the Reentry of African American Female Ex-Prisoners
Family has long been central to our understandings of offending and desistance. However, in research on adult offenders or prisoners, the focus is more often on romantic partners, children, and peers than on families of origin. This article underscores the continuing importance of families of origin in the reentry and desistance processes of urban female African American former prisoners and probationers. The author demonstrates that these relati…
Place and Perception: Constructions of Community and Safety across Neighborhoods and Residents
Residents of urban neighborhoods derive a sense of place and connection to their neighborhoods through their engagement with the neighborhood, including both the people in it and its amenities. In addition, one's perception of a neighborhood shapes one's sense of safety and fear of crime. In this paper, we analyze data from 84 interviews with residents in three Boston neighborhoods that varied on demographics, crime levels, and association to ste…
Interview Location as Data
New Parochialism and Community Dynamics: Benefits and Possible Collateral Consequences
Beyond Neighborhoods: Activity Spaces of Returning Prisoners
Neighborhood and place are key concerns in prisoner reentry and desistance literature. Residential change may serve as a turning point for those who want to desist from offending or minimize visibility as a “known” offender by law enforcement and neighbors. Yet choices of where to live are often dictated more by limited housing options than by preferred neighborhood characteristics. In addition, people are more or less stably housed upon release,…
Helen Codd, In the Shadow of Prison: Families, Imprisonment, and Criminal Justice
The Love of a Good Man? Romantic Relationships as a Source of Support or Hindrance for Female Ex-Offenders
This article explores the impact of romantic relationships on the reentry experiences of female ex-offenders. Although attachment to a prosocial spouse is an important social bond in the desistance of male offenders, male and female offenders have different offending and life experiences and are likely to draw romantic partners from very different groups. This article addresses this issue through an analysis of qualitative interviews with 49 fema…
People, Places, and Things: How Female Ex-Prisoners Negotiate Their Neighborhood Context
While many prisoners share the public and policy makers' concerns about returning to their former neighborhood when they are released from prison, recently released ex-prisoners often do not have the resources to move to a new neighborhood. Using multiple in-depth interviews with female ex-prisoners in Chicago, the author addresses how these women frame their often disadvantaged and racially segregated neighborhood contexts so that they are consi…
Being a Good Daughter and Sister: Families of Origin in the Reentry of African American Female Ex-Prisoners
Family has long been central to our understandings of offending and desistance. However, in research on adult offenders or prisoners, the focus is more often on romantic partners, children, and peers than on families of origin. This article underscores the continuing importance of families of origin in the reentry and desistance processes of urban female African American former prisoners and probationers. The author demonstrates that these relati…
Neighborhood context of attitudes toward crime and reentry
While much recent attention has been focused on the impact of incarceration on ex-prisoners, less has been paid to the general public’s informal attitudes and responses to crime and offenders. This article begins to fill this void by exploring the impact of individual and neighborhood characteristics on attitudes toward crime and prisoner reentry. The article is based on two phases of data collection. During phase one, residents of four Massachus…
Helen Codd, In the Shadow of Prison: Families, Imprisonment, and Criminal Justice
Narratives of Crime and Criminals: How Places Socially Construct the Crime Problem 1
A common narrative about crime in the contemporary United States is that offenders are primarily young black men living in poor urban neighborhoods committing violent and drug‐related crimes. There is also a local context to community, crime, and fear that influences this narrative. In this article, I address how narratives of crime and criminals play out differently within particular places. The article is based on participant observation and in…
New Parochialism and Community Dynamics: Benefits and Possible Collateral Consequences
Women Exiting Prison: Critical Essays on Gender, Post-Release Support and Survival
Contextualizing Community Crime Control: Race, Geography, and Configurations of Control in Four Communities
Criminology and urban sociology have long‐standing interests in how neighborhoods and communities respond to and control crime. We build on the literature on social disorganization, collective efficacy, and new parochialism to develop a framework that explains how and why communities respond differently to crime. We draw on more than 2 years of comparative ethnographic data and 56 resident and stakeholder interviews on responses to crime in four …
Violence Breeding Violence
Place and Perception: Constructions of Community and Safety across Neighborhoods and Residents
Residents of urban neighborhoods derive a sense of place and connection to their neighborhoods through their engagement with the neighborhood, including both the people in it and its amenities. In addition, one's perception of a neighborhood shapes one's sense of safety and fear of crime. In this paper, we analyze data from 84 interviews with residents in three Boston neighborhoods that varied on demographics, crime levels, and association to ste…
Lora Bex Lempert, Women Doing Life: Gender, Punishment, and the Struggle for Identity
The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma: How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance
When a woman leaves prison, she enters a world of competing messages and conflicting advice. Staff from prison, friends, family members, workers at halfway houses and treatment programs all have something to say about who she is, who she should be, and what she should do. The Ex-Prisoner’s Dilemma offers an in-depth, firsthand look at how the former prisoner manages messages about returning to the community. Over the course of a year, Andrea Leve…
Beyond Neighborhoods: Activity Spaces of Returning Prisoners
Neighborhood and place are key concerns in prisoner reentry and desistance literature. Residential change may serve as a turning point for those who want to desist from offending or minimize visibility as a “known” offender by law enforcement and neighbors. Yet choices of where to live are often dictated more by limited housing options than by preferred neighborhood characteristics. In addition, people are more or less stably housed upon release,…
Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity
Stick Together and Come Back Home details the ways in which the carceral social order, in which people in carceral spaces are sorted into groups based on race, geography, and social networks, shapes not only the prison and juvenile detention experiences but also the communities from which many criminalized people are drawn. In California, this sorting is not just a product of prison gangs and their feuds, but is an institutionalized practice, in …
Homeward: Life in the Year after Prison
Beyond Recidivism: New Approaches to Research on Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration
Although there are some indicators of a recent deceleration, and even, in some states, reversal, of the recent growth of the US incarcerated populations, the past few decades of “tough-on-crime” policies have resulted in the incarceration of millions of individuals. An inevitable consequence is that most imprisoned individuals are released, reentering society. Research about prisoner reentry has advanced significantly across fields in the last de…
Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry
Introduction -- Criminalizing disadvantage : race, class, gender, and reentry in Boston -- Bouncing and the black box of reentry's neighborhood effects -- Dorchester : returning to a "high crime" neighborhood -- The South End : returning to a "gentrified" neighborhood -- South Boston : returning to a "white" neighborhood -- Small towns, poverty, and addiction -- Conclusion -- Appendix A : methods -- Appendix B : research participants.
Interview Location as Data
Roadblocks to Cultivating Change: A Systems Level Analysis of Restorative Justice in Higher Education
In this article, we explore challenges to the creation of restorative universities. Drawing upon interviews with staff, faculty, and administrators at one US university campus, we discuss how loose coupling in higher education (Weick, 1976), and the nature of higher education as a porous institution (Ellis, 2021), make establishing a restorative campus difficult. In our analysis, we explore how divergent understandings of restorative justice, cha…
Sociology (16 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (15 works) · Criminology (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Law (6 works)