Andrea M Leverentz

The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma

How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance

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Produktbeschreibung

When a woman leaves prison, she enters a world of competing messages and conflicting advice. Staff from prison, friends, family members, workers at halfway houses and treatment programmes all have something to say about who she is, who she should be and what she should do. The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma offers an in-depth, firsthand look at how the former prisoner manages messages about returning to the community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780813562278
• ISBN-10: 0813562279
• Artikelnr.: 40492215

Autorenporträt

 ANDREA M. LEVERENTZ is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Becoming an Ex-Offender
1. The Mercy Home and the Discourse of Reentry and Desistance
2. Introducing the Women and Their Pathways to Offending
3. A Year in the Life: Evolving Perspectives on Reentry and Desistance
Part II: The Social Context of Reentry
4. Family Dynamics in Reentry and Desistance
5. Women's Chosen Relationships and Their Role in Self-Redefinition
6. Education, Employment, and a House of One's Own: Conventional Markers of
Success
Conclusion
Appendix A: Respondent Characteristics
Appendix B: Research Methods
Notes
References
Index