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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Foreword | ||
| Introduction: The Common Criminal and Us | 3 | |
| I | Dissecting Desistance | 15 |
| Ch. 1 | Defining Desistance | 19 |
| Ch. 2 | The Liverpool Desistance Study | 37 |
| II | Two Views of a Brick Wall | 53 |
| Ch. 3 | Sample Prognosis: Dire | 57 |
| Ch. 4 | Reading From a Condemnation Script | 73 |
| Ch. 5 | Making Good: The Rhetoric of Redemption | 85 |
| III | Applied Mythology | 109 |
| Ch. 6 | Work, Generativity, and Reform | 117 |
| Ch. 7 | Mea Culpa: Shame, Blame, and the Core Self | 131 |
| Ch. 8 | The Rituals of Redemption | 147 |
| Appendix | 169 | |
| References | 181 | |
| Author Index | 201 | |
| Subject Index | 207 | |
| About the Author | 211 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Steven Burgett
reviewed Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives on December 22, 2011
Making Good
This is a nice ray of hope, and a refreshing close-up of individuals, amidst a literature rife with pessimism and abstractions.
Maruna finds that, surprisingly, the key to quitting a life of crime is a measure of denial. Among ex-offenders who grow weary of criminal activity, those who end up rebuilding their lives aren't those who have the starkest or clearest view of reality. Instead, the ones who succeed are those who muster a positive self-image and a slightly inflated self-confidence. That is: they rewrite their histories in ways that excuse bad behavior (externalizing blame for past events), and they re-script their futures in ways that require discipline and initiative (internalizing responsibility for future progress).
Maruna frames his findings with key concepts from social psychology, sociology, and criminology. He sprinkles interview excerpts generously throughout his analysis, and he ties up each section with reflections about what needs to change in The System and in society.
Overall: readable, informative, and encouraging.
[First read/reviewed in December 2011.]
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Add Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives, Noting that so-called super-predators may not exist, but they certainly sell a lot of books, Maruna (criminal justice, State U. of New York, Albany) instead focuses on the class of people that, according to common wisdom, should commit more crime, but d, Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives, Noting that so-called super-predators may not exist, but they certainly sell a lot of books, Maruna (criminal justice, State U. of New York, Albany) instead focuses on the class of people that, according to common wisdom, should commit more crime, but d, Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives to your collection on WonderClub |
