Making Good How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives

Name: Making Good How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives
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ISBN: 9781433802140

ISBN-10: 1433802147

ISBN-13: 9781433802140

Edition: 2001

Authors: Shadd Maruna, Hans Toch

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Can hardened criminals really reform? This book provides a narrative analysis of the lives of repeat offenders who, by all statistical measures, should have continued on the criminal path but instead have created lives of productivity and purpose.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Publication date: 5/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 211
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword


Introduction: The Common Criminal and Us



Dissecting Desistance



Defining Desistance



The Liverpool Desistance Study



Two Views of a Brick Wall



Sample Prognosis: Dire



Reading From a Condemnation Script



Making Good: The Rhetoric of Redemption



Applied Mythology



Work, Generativity, and Reform



Mea Culpa: Shame, Blame, and the Core Self



The Rituals of Redemption


Appendix


References


Author Index


Subject Index


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