Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma : How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance /

Drawing on repeated interviews with forty-nine women newly released from prison, Leverentz explores the conflicting messages these women receive about who they are and who they should be-from prison staff, workers at halfway houses and drug treatment programs, family members, and friends. These mess...

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Main Author: Leverentz, Andrea M., 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick ; New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014.
©2014
Series:Critical issues in crime and society.
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