Escape routes : contemporary perspectives on life after punishment / / edited by Stephen Farrall. [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458980903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-85959-4; 1-283-04244-4; 9786613042446; 0-203-83588-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): FarrallStephen
• Disciplina: 365/.66
• Soggetti: Criminals - Rehabilitation; Redemption; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A GlassHouse book."
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Life after punishment: Identifying new strands in the research agenda; Chapter 1 Applying redemption through film: Challenging the sacred-secular divide; Chapter 2 Steps towards desistance among male young adult recidivists; Chapter 3 Youth justice?: The impact of system contact on patterns of desistance; Chapter 4 Feminist research, state power and executed women: The case of Louie Calvert; Chapter 5 Paths of exclusion, inclusion and desistance: Understanding marginalised young people's criminal careers; Chapter 6 The reintegration of sexual offenders: From a 'risks-' to a 'strengths-based' model of offender resettlementChapter 7 All in the family: The importance of support, tolerance and forgiveness in the desistance of male Bangladeshi offenders; Chapter 8 Inside-out: transitions from prison to everyday life: A qualitative longitudinal approach; Chapter 9 'I can't make my own future: ' White-collar offenders' anticipation of release from prison; Chapter 10 Life after punishment for Nazi war criminals: Reputation, careers and normative climate in post-war Germany; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment addresses the reasons why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated or resettled back into the community. Engaging with, and building upon, renewed criminological interest in this area, Escape Routes nevertheless broadens and enlivens the current debate. First, its scope goes beyond a narrowly-defined notion of crime and includes, for example, essays on religious redemption, the lives of ex-war criminals, and the relationship between ethnicity and desistance from crime. Second,