From Stigmatization to Disposable: The Continuing Challenge of Work With Marginalized People
Author: Donald G. Evans.
Source: Volume 23, Number 04, Summer 2014 , pp.4-6(3)
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Abstract:
The International Community Corrections Association began life as the International Halfway House Association, and its STIGMA conferences became the leading international forum for studying the role halfway houses might play in restoring offenders released from prison to full citizenship, shorn of the stigmatization society places on criminal offenders. In this brief history, journal editor Donald Evans traces some of the highlights in the 50 year history of IHHA, IARCA, and today’s ICCA, and the research conferences it has sponsored, which have played such a large role in furthering the work of re-entry.Keywords: Erving Goffman; Jean Vanier; Derek Mills; “what works” conferences
Affiliations:
1: Journal Executive Editor.