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The ex-prisoner's dilemma : how women negotiate competing narratives of reentry and desistance
Title
The ex-prisoner's dilemma : how women negotiate competing narratives of reentry and desistance / Andrea M. Leverentz.
ISBN
9780813562285 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813562287 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813562278 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813562279 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813562292 (e-book)
Publication
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Physical Description
x, 231 pages ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2014
Series
Critical issues in crime and society
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The mercy home and the discourse of reentry and desistance
Introducing the women and their pathways to offending
A year in the life : evolving perspectives on desistance and reentry
Family dynamics in reentry and desistance
Women's chosen relationships and their role in self-redefinition
Education, employment, and a house of one's own: conventional markers of success.
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