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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marieke Liem; Robert J Sampson |
ISBN: | 9781479806928 1479806927 9781479882823 1479882828 |
OCLC Number: | 945669013 |
Notes: | "Study of over sixty homicide offenders who served long sentences before being released"--Foreword. |
Description: | xii, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Understanding desistance -- The context -- Lives spiraling out of control -- A life sentence -- A productive, law-abiding citizen -- Life after life imprisonment -- Residual effects of imprisonment -- Going back -- Staying out -- Reconsidering lifer reentry -- Notes. |
Series Title: | New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series. |
Responsibility: | Marieke Liem ; foreword by Robert J. Sampson. |
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Considering the enormity of the sanction, it is remarkable how little we know about the lives of those who survive life imprisonment. With the powerful narratives in this ground-breaking book, Marieke Liem brings their perspectives into new light and asks & when is enough, enough? in terms of the punitive state. -- Shadd Maruna,co-author of Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives Of interest to both criminological researchers and policymakers, After Life Imprisonment deserves careful reading.A fascinating work of original and creative research. -- from the Foreword by Robert Sampson,author of Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect Read more...


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- Prisoners -- Deinstitutionalization -- United States.
- Murderers -- United States.
- Life imprisonment -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Ex-convicts -- United States -- Social conditions.
- Ex-convicts -- United States -- Economic conditions.
- Recidivism -- United States.
- 71.65 criminality as a social problem.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
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- Ex-convicts -- Economic conditions.
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- Murderers.
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- Recidivism.
- United States.
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