Transforming Justice, Transforming Lives - Women''s Pathways to Desistance From Crime

This ethnographic account explores the ways formerly gang-affiliated women reconstructed their lives through stewardship and community engagement. It focuses on their lives before and after committing to desist from crime while emphasizing the factors that facilitated their commitment including the mutual support gained from their communities.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Lens
Chapter 2: Methodology
Chapter 3: Pathways to Desistance
Chapter 4: Reconstruction and Redemptive Opportunities
Chapter 5: Cultivating Community
Case: A Safe Haven
Case: Ambassadors for Christ, We are all in Need of Redemption
Case: Liberation Christian Center, An Empowerment Agenda
Case: Vida Abundante, A Community of Care
Chapter 6: The Female "Offender" as Peacemaker
Chapter 7: Transformative Justice: Changing Patterns

About the author

By April Bernard

Summary

This ethnographic account explores the ways formerly gang-affiliated women reconstructed their lives through stewardship and community engagement. It focuses on their lives before and after committing to desist from crime while emphasizing the factors that facilitated their commitment including the mutual support gained from their communities.

Product details

• Authors: April Bernard, Bernard April
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781498519823
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1982-3
• No. of pages: 158
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Rehabilitation of offenders