How Offenders Transform Their Lives
Contributors: Christian, Johanna; Martinez, Damian
Publisher: Willan Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Uffculme
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781843927310
Subjects: Criminals; Rehabilitation
Description: This book presents a series of studies (mostly qualitative) that investigate individual identity transformation from offender status to pro-social, non-offending roles.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Prelims; Contents; List of Tables; Notes on contributors; Chapter 2. Moments of transformation: formerly incarcerated individuals' narratives of change; Chapter 3. Looking-glass identity transformation: Pygmalion and Golem in the rehabilitation process; Chapter 4. Former prisoners, their family members, and the transformative potential of support; Chapter 5. 'I got a quick tongue': negotiating ex-convict identity in mixed company; Chapter 6. Thinking inside the box: prisoner education, learning identities, and the possibilities for change.; title: Chapter 7. Accounts of change and resistance among women prisonersChapter 8. Parole supervision, change in the self, and desistance from substance use and crime; Chapter 9. Identity change through the transformational model of the public safety initiative of LIFERS, Inc; Chapter 10. Formerly incarcerated persons' use of advocacy/activism as a coping orientation in the reintegration process; Chpater 11. Lessons learned about offender change; implications.