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

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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Main Author: Leverentz, Andrea M., 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick ; New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014.
©2014
Series:Critical issues in crime and society.
Subjects:
Women prisoners > Rehabilitation > United States.
Criminals > Rehabilitation > United States.
Ex-convicts > Services for > United States.
Prisoners > Family relationships > United States.
Ex-convicts > United States > Longitudinal studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Criminals > Rehabilitation
Ex-convicts
Ex-convicts > Services for
Prisoners > Family relationships
Women prisoners > Rehabilitation
United States
twelve step and desistance messages.
Electronic books.
Longitudinal studies
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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