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How Offenders Transform Their Lives.
This book presents a series of studies (mostly qualitative) that investigate individual identity transformation from offender status to pro-social, non-offending roles.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Uffculme :
Willan Pub.,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Prelims; Contents; List of Tables; Notes on contributors; Chapter 2. Moments of transformation: formerly incarcerated individuals' narratives of change; Chapter 3. Looking-glass identity transformation: Pygmalion and Golem in the rehabilitation process; Chapter 4. Former prisoners, their family members, and the transformative potential of support; Chapter 5. 'I got a quick tongue': negotiating ex-convict identity in mixed company; Chapter 6. Thinking inside the box: prisoner education, learning identities, and the possibilities for change.
- Chapter 7. Accounts of change and resistance among women prisonersChapter 8. Parole supervision, change in the self, and desistance from substance use and crime; Chapter 9. Identity change through the transformational model of the public safety initiative of LIFERS, Inc; Chapter 10. Formerly incarcerated persons' use of advocacy/activism as a coping orientation in the reintegration process; Chpater 11. Lessons learned about offender change; implications.