The MPs' expenses scandal in England and Wales and the
international banking crisis have both brought into focus a concern
about 'elite' individuals and their treatment by criminal justice
systems. This interest intersects with a well-established concern
within criminology for the transgressions of such offenders.
However, up until now there has been little sustained consideration
of what happens to such offenders following conviction and little
discussion of how they attempt to avoid reoffending in the wake of
their punishment. This study rectifies this omission by drawing
upon white-collar offenders' own accounts of their punishment and
their attempts to make new lives in the aftermath of it. Detailing
the impact of imprisonment on white-collar offenders, their release
from prison and efforts to be successful again, this book outlines
the particular strategies white-collar offenders used to cope with
the difficulties they encountered and also analyses the ways they
tried to work out 'who they were' in the post-release worlds they
found themselves in. Representing the first sustained qualitative
study of white-collar offenders and desistance from crime, this
book will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the
study of white-collar crime, desistance from crime and prison. The
insights it offers into a particular group of offenders' experience
of criminal justice would also make it useful for criminal justice
practitioners and anyone who wishes to understand the challenges
faced by a group of offenders who are assumed to have many
advantages when it comes to desisting from crime.
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