This book casts new light on men's experience of release from prison. Drawing on research conducted in Australia, it speaks to the challenges facing people leaving prison and seeking acceptance amongst the non-imprisoned around the world.

Diana F. Johns is Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

1. What's the post-release problem?

2. A catalogue of post-prison disadvantage

3. The post-release problem

4. Assemblage, culture, liminality

5. Phenomenography

6. Lived experience of release

7. Post-release support perspectives

8. Home, identity, connection

9. Being and becoming