After Crime and Punishment

by Maruna; Shadd

• ISBN13: 9781843920588
• ISBN10: 1843920581
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• 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	v
Foreword by Neal Shover	vii
Notes on contributors	xii
Part I: Desistance Theory and Reintegration Practice
1 Ex-offender reintegration: theory and practice	3	(24)
Shadd Maruna, Russ Immarigeon and Thomas P. LeBel
2 Reintegration and restorative justice: towards a theory and practice of informal social control and support	27	(30)
Gordon Bazemore and Carsten Erbe
3 Social capital and offender reintegration: making probation desistance focused	57	(28)
Stephen Farrall
Part II: Methodological Considerations
4 Connecting desistance and recidivism: measuring changes in criminality over the lifespan	85	(17)
Shawn D. Bushway, Robert Brame and Raymond Paternoster
5 Somewhere between persistence and desistance: the intermittency of criminal careers	102	(27)
Alex R. Piquero
Part III: Applied Research on Desistance
6 Jail or the army: does military service facilitate desistance from crime?	129	(23)
Leana Allen Bouffard and John H. Laub
7 To reoffend or not to reoffend? The ambivalence of convicted property offenders	152	(29)
Ros Burnett
8 Desistance from crime: is it different for women and girls?	181	(20)
Gill McIvor, Cathy Murray and Janet Jamieson
Part IV: Desistance focused Reintegration Research
9 Beating the perpetual incarceration machine: overcoming structural impediments to re-entry	201	(32)
Stephen C. Richards and Richard S. Jones
10 With eyes wide open: formalizing community and social control intervention in offender reintegration programmes	233	(28)
Faye S. Taxman, Douglas Young and James M. Byrne
11 'Less than the average citizen': stigma, role transition and the civic reintegration of convicted felons	261	(33)
Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza and Angela Behrens
Index	294