Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives
by Maruna, ShaddEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-05-01
Publisher(s): AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
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Summary
Queen's Univ., Belfast, Northern Ireland. Softcover reprint examines how ex-convicts rebuild their lives. Includes the rhetoric of redemption; shame, blame, and the core self; the rituals of redemption; and work and reform. For psychologists. Softcover, hardcover published 2001.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Foreword | p. xv |
| Introduction: The Common Criminal and Us | p. 3 |
| Dissecting Desistance | p. 15 |
| Defining Desistance | p. 19 |
| The Liverpool Desistance Study | p. 37 |
| Two Views of a Brick Wall | p. 53 |
| Sample Prognosis: Dire | p. 57 |
| Reading From a Condemnation Script | p. 73 |
| Making Good: The Rhetoric of Redemption | p. 85 |
| Applied Mythology | p. 109 |
| Work, Generativity, and Reform | p. 117 |
| Mea Culpa: Shame, Blame, and the Core Self | p. 131 |
| The Rituals of Redemption | p. 147 |
| Appendix | p. 169 |
| References | p. 181 |
| Author Index | p. 201 |
| Subject Index | p. 207 |
| About the Author | p. 211 |
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