After life imprisonment : reentry in the era of mass incarceration /

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"One out of every ten prisoners in the United States is serving a life sentence--roughly 130,000 people. While some have been sentenced to life in prison without parole, the majority of prisoners serving 'life' will be released back into society. But what becomes of those people who r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Liem, Marieke (Autor)
Otros Autores: Sampson, Robert J., 1956- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2016.
Colección:New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series.
Temas:
Prisoners > Deinstitutionalization > United States.
Murderers > United States.
Life imprisonment > Social aspects > United States.
Ex-convicts > United States > Social conditions.
Ex-convicts > United States > Economic conditions.
Recidivism > United States.
Meurtriers > États-Unis.
Réclusion à perpétuité > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Récidive > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Ex-convicts > Economic conditions
Ex-convicts > Social conditions
Murderers
Prisoners > Deinstitutionalization
Recidivism
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Understanding desistance
  • The context
  • Lives spiraling out of control
  • A life sentence
  • A productive, law-abiding citizen
  • Life after life imprisonment
  • Residual effects of imprisonment
  • Going back
  • Staying out
  • Reconsidering lifer reentry
  • Notes.

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