Lila Kazemian

Gebundenes Buch

Positive Growth and Redemption in Prison

Finding Light Behind Bars and Beyond

Beschreibung

Drawing on an original longitudinal study of French prisoners, this book assesses the similarities and differences in prison experiences across different cultural settings, considers life course transitions, fluctuations in psychological well-being, and whether what we know about desistance can be applied to those incarcerated.

Autor

Lila Kazemian is Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. She is a graduate of Université de Montréal in Canada, and she earned the Ph.D. in criminology at the University of Cambridge. She joined the faculty of John Jay College in 2006 after completing a post-doctoral fellowship funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. She has published on the topics of desistance from crime, life-course and criminal career research, prisoner reentry, and comparative criminology. Her work has been published in Criminology & Public Policy, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Punishment & Society, the European Journal of Criminology, and the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9781138312562
• ISBN-10: 1138312568
• Artikelnr.: 58053437