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

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Leverentz, Andrea M., 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women prisoners > Rehabilitation.
Prisoners > Family relationships.
Ex-convicts > Services for.
Ex-convicts.
Criminals > Rehabilitation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Ex-detenus > États-Unis > Études longitudinales.
Prisonniers > Relations familiales > États-Unis.
Ex-detenus > Services > États-Unis.
Rehabilitation > États-Unis.
Ex-convicts > United States > Longitudinal studies.
Prisoners > Family relationships > United States.
Ex-convicts > Services for > United States.
Criminals > Rehabilitation > United States.
Women prisoners > Rehabilitation > United States.
United States.
Longitudinal studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The mercy home and the discourse of reentry and desistance
  • Introducing the women and their pathways to offending
  • A year in the life : evolving perspectives on desistance and reentry
  • Family dynamics in reentry and desistance
  • Women's chosen relationships and their role in self-redefinition
  • Education, employment, and a house of one's own: conventional markers of success.

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