Ex-Prisoner''s Dilemma - How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance

Informationen zum Autor Leverentz, Andrea M Klappentext When a woman leaves prison, she enters a world of competing messages and conflicting advice. Staff from prison, friends, family members, workers at halfway houses and treatment programmes all have something to say about who she is, who she should be and what she should do. The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma offers an in-depth, firsthand look at how the former prisoner manages messages about returning to the community. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Becoming an Ex-Offender1. The Mercy Home and the Discourse of Reentry and Desistance2. Introducing the Women and Their Pathways to Offending3. A Year in the Life: Evolving Perspectives on Reentry and DesistancePart II: The Social Context of Reentry4. Family Dynamics in Reentry and Desistance5. Women's Chosen Relationships and Their Role in Self-Redefinition6. Education, Employment, and a House of One's Own: Conventional Markers of SuccessConclusionAppendix A: Respondent CharacteristicsAppendix B: Research MethodsNotes ReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Andrea M Leverentz, Andrea M. Leverentz
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2014
• EAN: 9780813562278
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6227-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Critical Issues in Crime and S
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology