How Offenders Transform Their Lives

Herausgeber: Veysey, Bonita; J. Martinez, Damian; Christian, Johnna

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a series of studies that investigate individual identity transformation from offender status to pro-social, non-offending roles highlighting the perspectives of the men and women who are current or were formerly incarcerated.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Willan
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9781843925095
• ISBN-10: 1843925095
• Artikelnr.: 26021541

Autorenporträt

Bonita Veysey, Johnna Christian, and Damian J. Martinez are all based at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Identity Transformation and Offender Change 2. Moments of
Transformation: Formerly Incarcerated Individuals' Narratives of Change 3.
Looking-glass Identity Transformation: Pygmalion and Golem in the
Rehabilitation Process 4. Former Prisoners, Their Family Members, and the
Transformative Potential of Support 5. 'I Got A Quick Tongue': Negotiating
Ex-Convict Identity in Mixed Company 6. Thinking Inside the Box: Prisoner
Education, Learning Identities, and the Possibilities for Change 7.
Accounts of Change and Resistance Among Women Prisoners 8. Parole
Supervision, Change in the Self, and Desistance from Substance Use and
Crime 9. Identity Change Through the Transformation Model of L.I.F.E.R.S.,
Inc. 10. Formerly Incarcerated Persons' Use of Advocacy/Activism as a
Coping Orientation in the Reintegration Process 11. Lessons Learned About
Offender Change: Implications for Criminal Justice Policy