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Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner (Paperback)
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Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner (Paperback)
Series: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
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Despite broad scholarship documenting the compounding effects and
self-reproducing character of incarceration, ways of
conceptualising imprisonment and the post-prison experience have
scarcely changed in over a century. Contemporary correctional
thinking has congealed around notions of risk and management. This
book aims to cast new light on men's experience of release from
prison. Drawing on research conducted in Australia, it speaks to
the challenges facing people leaving prison and seeking acceptance
amongst the non-imprisoned around the world. Johns reveals the
complexity of the post-prison experience, which is frequently
masked by constructions of risk that individualise responsibility
for reoffending and reimprisonment. This book highlights the
important role of community in ex-prisoner integration, in
providing opportunities for participation and acceptance. Johns
shows that the process of becoming an 'ex'-prisoner is not simply
one of individual choice or larger structural forces, but occurs in
the spaces in between. Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner reveals
the complex interplay between internal and external meanings and
practices that causes men to feel neither locked up, nor wholly
free. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in
desistance, criminology, criminological or penological theory,
sociology and qualitative research methods.
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