The Organization of a Reentry Court: A Case Study Demonstrates Discourses of Stability and Change

• In Event: Change We Can Believe In: Stability and Change in Organizations

Abstract

An organizational communication perspective addresses how a Problem Solving Reentry Court is discursively organized. An institutional ethnography (IE) explores the organization of the Reentry Court through discourses both written and oral. A description of the IE method used in the collection of data and the types of materials obtained for the analysis are explained. A case study of a young woman participant is reported and analyzed, and implications for furture research are discussed.

Author

• Jeralyn Faris, Purdue University