1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454004603321

Titolo

After crime and punishment : pathways to offender reintegration / / edited by Shadd Maruna and Russ Immarigeon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cullompton, Devon, U.K. ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Willan Pub., , 2004

ISBN

1-135-98663-0

1-281-33146-5

9786611331467

1-84392-420-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ImmarigeonRussell

MarunaShadd

Disciplina

364.8

Soggetti

Ex-convicts - Rehabilitation

Criminals - Rehabilitation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; After Crime and Punishment: Pathways to offender reintegration; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Foreword; Notes on contributors; Part I Desistance Theory and Reintegration Practice; Chapter 1 Ex-offender reintegration: theory and practice; Chapter 2 Reintegration and restorative justice: towards a theory and practice of informal social control and support; Chapter 3 Social capital and offender reintegration: making probation desistance focused; Part II Methodological Considerations

Chapter 4 Connecting desistance and recidivism: measuring changes in criminality over the lifespanChapter 5 Somewhere between persistence and desistance: the intermittency of criminal careers; Part III Applied Research on Desistance; Chapter 6 Jail or the army: does military service facilitate desistance from crime?; Chapter 7 To reoffend or not to reoffend? The ambivalence of convicted property offenders; Chapter 8 Desistance from crime: is it different for women and girls?; Part IV Desistance-focused Reintegration Research

Chapter 9 Beating the perpetual incarceration machine: overcoming



structural impediments to re-entryChapter 10 With eyes wide open: formalizing community and social control intervention in offender reintegration programmes; Chapter 11 'Less than the average citizen': stigma, role transition and the civic reintegration of convicted felons; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The issue of resettling ex-prisoners and ex-offenders into the community has become an increasingly important one on both sides of the Atlantic. In the USA the former Attorney General Janet Reno identified the issue as 'one of the most pressing problems we face as a nation' in view of the massive prison population and the rapid increase in rates of incarceration, while in the UK it has become an increasingly important issue for similar reasons, and the subject of recent reports by HM Inspectorate of Prisons and HM Inspectorate of Probation, as well as from the Social Exclusion Unit of the H

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465048703321

Titolo

Still life : poems from the cheshire prize for literature 2010 / / edited by Emma Rees ; front cover image, Luiz Meléndez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chester, [England] : , : University of Chester Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-908258-80-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (115 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ReesEmma

MeléndezLuiz

Disciplina

823.0108

Soggetti

Short stories, English

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Sommario/riassunto

In a hot Spanish kitchen a little boy's mouth waters as he daydreams about the citrus tang of freshly-squeezed juice; in the weak sunlight outside a Russian Orthodox church, splinters of wood dance like so



many motes of dust; and in a camp in Germany three prisoners of war look upwards and marvel at the near-weightless liberty of the birds they see. These are some of the exquisite moments almost visual in their vibrancy that are captured in the pages of Still Life. In this rich and textured anthology, the mundane is transfi gured as poets attempt to answer or at least to establish the big ques

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792516703321

Autore

Hopkins Bruce R.

Titolo

The tax law of charitable giving . 2017 Cumulative supplement / / Bruce R. Hopkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-119-34545-6

Edizione

[Fifth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Wiley Nonprofit Authority

Disciplina

343.73052668

Soggetti

Income tax deductions for charitable contributions - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.