LEADER 04852nam 2200709 450 001 9910828076603321 005 20230803201852.0 010 $a0-8135-6229-5 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813562292 035 $a(CKB)3710000000089288 035 $a(EBL)1637106 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001132169 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11641073 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001132169 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11147550 035 $a(PQKB)11422801 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1637106 035 $a(OCoLC)871190251 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse31617 035 $a(DE-B1597)526233 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813562292 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1637106 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10838926 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL577261 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000089288 100 $a20140228h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe ex-prisoner's dilemma $ehow women negotiate competing narratives of reentry and desistance /$fAndrea M. Leverentz 210 1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey ;$aLondon, [England] :$cRutger University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 225 1 $aCritical Issues in Crime and Society Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8135-6228-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tPart I. Becoming an Ex-Offender --$t1. The Mercy Home and the Discourse of Reentry and Desistance --$t2. Introducing the Women and Their Pathways to Offending --$t3. A Year in the Life: Evolving Perspectives on Reentry and Desistance --$tPart II. The Social Context of Reentry --$t4. Family Dynamics in Reentry and Desistance --$t5. Women's Chosen Relationships and Their Role in Self-Redefinition --$t6. Education, Employment, and a House of One's Own: Conventional Markers of Success --$tConclusion --$tAppendix A: Respondent Characteristics --$tAppendix B: Research Methods --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aWhen a woman leaves prison, she enters a world of competing messages and conflicting advice. Staff from prison, friends, family members, workers at halfway houses and treatment programs all have something to say about who she is, who she should be, and what she should do. The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma offers an in-depth, firsthand look at how the former prisoner manages messages about returning to the community. Over the course of a year, Andrea Leverentz conducted repeated interviews with forty-nine women as they adjusted to life outside of prison and worked to construct new ideas of themselves as former prisoners and as mothers, daughters, sisters, romantic partners, friends, students, and workers. Listening to these women, along with their family members, friends, and co-workers, Leverentz pieces together the narratives they have created to explain their past records and guide their future behavior. She traces where these narratives came from and how they were shaped by factors such as gender, race, maternal status, age, and experiences in prison, halfway houses, and twelve-step programs-factors that in turn shaped the women's expectations for themselves, and others' expectations of them. The women's stories form a powerful picture of the complex, complicated human experience behind dry statistics and policy statements regarding prisoner reentry into society for women, how the experience is different for men and the influence society plays. With its unique view of how society's mixed messages play out in ex-prisoners' lived realities, The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma shows the complexity of these women's experiences within the broad context of the war on drugs and mass incarceration in America. It offers invaluable lessons for helping such women successfully rejoin society. 410 0$aCritical issues in crime and society. 606 $aWomen prisoners$xRehabilitation$zUnited States 606 $aCriminals$xRehabilitation$zUnited States 606 $aEx-convicts$xServices for$zUnited States 606 $aPrisoners$xFamily relationships$zUnited States 606 $aEx-convicts$zUnited States$vLongitudinal studies 610 $atwelve step and desistance messages. 615 0$aWomen prisoners$xRehabilitation 615 0$aCriminals$xRehabilitation 615 0$aEx-convicts$xServices for 615 0$aPrisoners$xFamily relationships 615 0$aEx-convicts 676 $a365/.660820973 700 $aLeverentz$b Andrea M.$f1973-$01686701 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828076603321 996 $aThe ex-prisoner's dilemma$94059670 997 $aUNINA