Everyday Desistance - The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth

Informationen zum Autor LAURA S. ABRAMS is a professor in the Department of Social Welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles Luskin School of Public Affairs. She is the author of the award-winning book, Compassionate Confinement: A Year in the Life of Unit C (Rutgers University Press).   DIANE J. TERRY is a senior research associate at the Loyola Marymount University Psychology Applied Research Center in Los Angeles.   Klappentext In Everyday Desistance, the authors examine the transition to adulthood among twenty-five formerly incarcerated young men and women in Los Angeles, California. They describe their day-to-day experiences, focusing on their attempts to surmount the challenges of adulthood, resist the temptations of criminal activity, and formulate their long-term goals for a secure adult future.   Zusammenfassung Examines the lives of young people who spent considerable time in and out of correctional institutions as adolescents. This book narrates the day-to-day experiences of these young men and women! focusing on their attempts to surmount the challenges of adulthood! resisting a return to criminal activity! and formulating long-term goals for a secure adult future. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Foreword by Michelle Inderbitzin, PhD  1 Introduction  2 The Road to Juvie  3 Locked Up and Back Again  4 And Now I'm an Adult  5 Dangers and Decisions: Navigating Desistance as a Young Man  6 You Can Run but You Can't Hide  7 Finding a Net to Fall Back On: The Young Woman's Journeys  8 Everyday Desistance: Theory Meets Reality  9 Policy and Practice Reforms: Supporting the Pathway to Adulthood  Acknowledgments  Appendix: The Research Process  Bibliography  Index

List of contents

Contents
Foreword by Michelle Inderbitzin, PhD 
1 Introduction 
2 The Road to Juvie 
3 Locked Up and Back Again 
4 And Now I'm an Adult 
5 Dangers and Decisions: Navigating Desistance as a Young Man 
6 You Can Run but You Can't Hide 
7 Finding a Net to Fall Back On: The Young Woman's Journeys 
8 Everyday Desistance: Theory Meets Reality 
9 Policy and Practice Reforms: Supporting the Pathway to Adulthood 
Acknowledgments 
Appendix: The Research Process 
Bibliography 
Index 

About the author

LAURA S. ABRAMS is a professor in the Department of Social Welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles Luskin School of Public Affairs. She is the author of the award-winning book, Compassionate Confinement: A Year in the Life of Unit C (Rutgers University Press).
 
DIANE J. TERRY is a senior research associate at the Loyola Marymount University Psychology Applied Research Center in Los Angeles.
 

Product details

Authors	Laura Abrams, Laura S Abrams, Laura S. Abrams, Laura S. Terry Abrams, Laura S./ Terry Abrams, Diane Terry, Diane J. Terry
Publisher	Rutgers University Press
Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	31.05.2017
EAN	9780813574462
ISBN	978-0-8135-7446-2
No. of pages	256
Series	Critical Issues in Crime and S; Critical Issues in Crime and Society; Critical Issues in Crime and Society; Critical Issues in Crime and S
Subject	Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

Product details

• Authors: Laura Abrams, Laura S Abrams, Laura S. Abrams, Laura S. Terry Abrams, Laura S./ Terry Abrams, Diane Terry, Diane J. Terry
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780813574462
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-7446-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Critical Issues in Crime and S; Critical Issues in Crime and Society; Critical Issues in Crime and Society; Critical Issues in Crime and S
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories