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

• Pubblicazione: Cullompton, Devon, U.K. ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Willan Pub., , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.8
• Soggetto topico: Ex-convicts - Rehabilitation; Criminals - Rehabilitation
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ImmarigeonRussell MarunaShadd
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: After crime and punishment
• ISBN: 1-135-98663-0; 1-281-33146-5; 9786611331467; 1-84392-420-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454004603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II