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DeVellis, Leah. "On the Fence: Balancing Issues of Governance and Social Work in a Halfway House for Women" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Law and Society Association, Hilton Bonaventure, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 27, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p243647_index.html>

DeVellis, L. , 2008-05-27 "On the Fence: Balancing Issues of Governance and Social Work in a Halfway House for Women" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Law and Society Association, Hilton Bonaventure, Montreal, Quebec, Canada <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p243647_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Halfway houses represent an extremely grey area of the Canadian criminal justice system. Halfway houses are intended to be the “last step” in one’s sentence and are used to assist one’s reintegration into the community. Therefore, these facilities reflect the halfway point between prison and independent life in the community. This transitional zone is intended to represent a “realistic living environment” while combining aspects of governance and supervision with social support and counselling. Within this unique environment, frontline workers, those that have direct contact with the ‘client’ population, are responsible for taking on the roles of both “guard” and social worker. Understanding that aspects of safety and security are paramount in correctional facilities and thus supersede personal care and counselling, one must question the ability of frontline workers to combine two roles that philosophically conflict. Based on ethnographic interviews with frontline workers in one halfway house for women in Ontario, this paper explores how frontline workers seek to simultaneously fulfill the roles of ‘guards’ (i.e. monitoring behaviour and enforcing conditions of parole) and social workers (i.e. providing drug and alcohol counselling). Taking this puzzle as the point of departure, this paper also explores how issues of governance come to dominate the work of frontline workers, and how the structure of community correctional facilities limits frontline workers’ ability to provide adequate social support for criminalized women.

Balancing Faculty Careers and Family Work: Tenure-Track Women's Perceptions of and Experiences with Work/Family Issues and their Relationships to Job Satisfaction

When and Why do Governments Promote Sex Equality? Violence Against Women, Reproductive Rights, and Work-Family Issues in Cross-National Perspective