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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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.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780813562278

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