Making Good

by Maruna, Shadd; Toch, Hans

• ISBN13: 9781557987310
• ISBN10: 1557987319
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn

Summary

State Univ. of New York, Albany. Text, based on the Liverpool Desistance Study, compares and contrasts the stories of ex-convicts who are actively involved in criminal behavior with those who are desisting from crime and drug use. Suggests that success in reform depends on providing rehabilitative opportunities that encourage rehabilitation.

Author Biography

Shadd Maruna, PhD, is an assistant professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Albany, where he teaches courses in community corrections, rehabilitative interventions, and drug addiction treatment. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, an H. F. Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fellow of the Joint Center for Poverty Research in Chicago. His doctoral thesis, "Redeeming One's Self: How Reformed Ex-Offenders Make Sense of Their Lives," was awarded the Phi Delta Kappa Outstanding Dissertation Award for Northwestern University in 1998. He spends his free time with his daughter Zara and volunteering as a tutor in a local correctional facility

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Foreword	xv
Introduction: The Common Criminal and Us	3	(12)
I. DISSECTING DESISTANCE	15	(38)
Defining Desistance	19	(18)
The Liverpool Desistance Study	37	(16)
II. TWO VIEWS OF A BRICK WALL	53	(56)
Sample Prognosis: Dire	57	(16)
Reading From a Condemnation Script	73	(12)
Making Good: The Rhetoric of Redemption	85	(24)
III. APPLIED MYTHOLOGY	109	(60)
Work, Generativity, and Reform	117	(14)
Mea Culpa: Shame, Blame, and the Core Self	131	(16)
The Rituals of Redemption	147	(22)
Appendix	169	(12)
References	181	(20)
Author Index	201	(6)
Subject Index	207	(4)
About the Author	211