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Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma : How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance /
Drawing on repeated interviews with forty-nine women newly released from prison, Leverentz explores the conflicting messages these women receive about who they are and who they should be-from prison staff, workers at halfway houses and drug treatment programs, family members, and friends. These mess...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick ; New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
2014.
©2014 |
| Colección: | Critical issues in crime and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Drawing on repeated interviews with forty-nine women newly released from prison, Leverentz explores the conflicting messages these women receive about who they are and who they should be-from prison staff, workers at halfway houses and drug treatment programs, family members, and friends. These messages, she shows, shape the narratives the women create to explain their past records and guide their future behavior. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781461958185 1461958180 1306460107 9781306460101 9780813562292 0813562295 9780813562285 0813562287 |