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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liem, Marieke (Author)
Other Authors: Sampson, Robert J., 1956- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Recidivism.
Prisoners > Deinstitutionalization.
Murderers.
Ex-convicts > Social conditions.
Ex-convicts > Economic conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Recidive > États-Unis.
Reclusion à perpetuite > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Meurtriers > États-Unis.
Recidivism > United States.
Ex-convicts > United States > Economic conditions.
Ex-convicts > United States > Social conditions.
Life imprisonment > Social aspects > United States.
Murderers > United States.
Prisoners > Deinstitutionalization > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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