After Crime and Punishment

by Maruna; Shadd

• ISBN13: 9781843920571
• ISBN10: 1843920573
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-02-24
• Publisher: Willan

Summary

The issue of reintegrating ex-prisoners and ex-offenders into the community has become an increasingly pressing one around the world. In view of the rapid increase in the sheer number of people coming out of prison and their notorious lack of success in post-prison life, former Us Attorney General Janet Reno described ex-offender re-entry as 'one of the most pressing problems we face as a nation'.Yet the issue of offender reintegration and resettlement has not been well served by the criminological literature, and the new policies and programs that have been set up to address the problem are not always grounded in criminological thinking. This book seeks to address the important set of issues involved by bringing together the best of recent thinking and research on the subject of desistance from crime from both the US and the UK, with a distinct focus on how this research might impact on the design and implementation of ex-offender reintegration policy.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	p. v
Foreword	p. vii
Notes on contributors	p. xii
Desistance Theory and Reintegration Practice
Ex-offender reintegration: theory and practice	p. 3
Reintegration and restorative justice: towards a theory and practice of informal social control and support	p. 27
Social capital and offender reintegration: making probation desistance focused	p. 57
Methodological Considerations
Connecting desistance and recidivism: measuring changes in criminality over the lifespan	p. 85
Somewhere between persistence and desistance: the intermittency of criminal careers	p. 102
Applied Research on Desistance
Jail or the army: does military service facilitate desistance from crime?	p. 129
To reoffend or not to reoffend? The ambivalence of convicted property offenders	p. 152
Desistance from crime: is it different for women and girls?	p. 181
Desistance-focused Reintegration Research
Beating the perpetual incarceration machine: overcoming structural impediments to re-entry	p. 201
With eyes wide open: formalizing community and social control intervention in offender reintegration programmes	p. 233
'Less than the average citizen': stigma, role transition and the civic reintegration of convicted felons	p. 261
Index	p. 294
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