This book provides an assessment of contemporary international knowledge about the experiences of life after release from prison. For over 100 years people leaving prison have been supervised by probation services, but little has been written about how those who are supervised experience this process, or how this process influences experiences post-release. Research suggests that the success or failure of supervision in terms of reoffending may be related to how it is experienced, but little has been written about how supervision interacts with these experiences. Despite this lack of grounded knowledge, post-prison supervision continues to grow internationally. This book addresses issues relating to life after release through providing a vision of contemporary life after prison in different social and economic climates from those who are the subjects of this growing and changing form of penal power. An engaging and timely study, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of criminal justice and punishment.

In 1997, on a five-hour car trip, Victoria's grandfather, Eugen, began to tell a story from his past. Soon Victoria began to document her grandparents' lives . . . -Growing up under the Nazi dictatorship -Struggling through the war-Eugen on the front lines, Ruth in Germany -Eugen's long, dangersous years as a POW in Siberia while his family wondered whether he was alive -Their new lives in America. Richly detailed and haunting, "Surviving World War II" is a story that adds to our understanding of Hitler's regime and its effect on ordinary families everywhere.