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The 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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Leverentz, Andrea M., 1973-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.