Can hardened criminals really reform? "Making Good" provides resounding proof that the answer is yes. This book provides a fascinating narrative analysis of the lives of repeat offenders who, by all statistical measures, should have continued on the criminal path but instead have created lives of productivity and purpose. This examination of the phenomenology of "making good" includes an encyclopedic review of the literature on personal reform as well as a practical guide to the use of narratives in offender counseling and rehabilitation.The author's research shows that criminals who desist from crime have constructed powerful narratives that aided them in making sense of their pasts, finding fulfillment in productive behaviors, and feeling in control of their future. Borrowing from the field of narrative psychology, Maruna argues that to truly understand offenders, we must understand the stories that they tell - and that in turn this story-making process has the capacity to transform lives. "Making Good" challenges some of the cherished assumptions of various therapy models for offenders and supports new paradigms for offender rehabilitation. This groundbreaking book is a must read for criminologists, forensic psychologists, lawyers, rehabilitation counselors, or anyone interested in the generative process of change.

Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives

The new penology argues that an important new language of penology is emerging. This new language, which has its counterparts in other areas of the law as well, shifts focus away from the traditional concerns of the criminal law and criminology, which have focused on the individual, and redirects it to actuarial consideration of aggregates. This shift has a number of important implications: It facilitates development of a vision or model of a new type of criminal process that embraces increased reliance on imprisonment and that merges concerns for surveillance and custody, that shifts away from a concern with punishing individuals to managing aggregates of dangerous groups, and that affects the training and practice of criminologists.

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The New Penology : Notes on the emerging strategy of corrections and its implications

The article offers a descriptive analysis of strategies of crime control in contemporary Britain and elsewhere. It argues that the normality of high crime rates and the limitations of criminal justice agencies have created a new predicament for governments. The response to this predicament has been recurring ambivalence that helps explain the volatile and contradictory character of recent crime control policy. The article identifies adaptive strategies (responsibilization, defining deviance down, and redefining organizational success) and strategies of denial (the punitive sovereign response), as well as the different criminologies that accompany them.

THE LIMITS OF THE SOVEREIGN STATE Strategies of Crime Control in Contemporary Society

The Development of Offending and Antisocial Behaviour from Childhood: Key Findings from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development

This major inter-disciplinary collection, edited by two of the best respected figures in the field, provides a superb general introduction to this subject. Chapters include discussions of fieldwork methodology, analyzing discourse, the advantages and pitfalls of team approaches, the uses of computers, and the applications of qualitative data analysis for social policy. Shrewd and insightful, the collection will be required reading for students of the latest thinking on research methods.

Analyzing Qualitative Data

Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking

1. David Downes: An Introduction 2. Beyond Risk: A Lament For Social Democratic Criminology 3. Dangerous People: Beginnings of a New Labour Proposal 4. With Respect to Order, the Rules of the Game have Changed: New Labour's Dominance of the 'Law and Order' Agenda, 5. East Ending: Dissociation, De-industrialisation and David Downes 6. Opportunity Makes the Thief-Taker: The influence of economic analysis on crime control 7. Contrasts and Concepts: Considering the Development of Comparative Criminology 8. Historicising Contrasts in Tolerance 9. Contrasts in Intolerance: Cultures of Control in USA and Britain 10. Governance and Restorative Justice in Cali, Colombia 11. Neither Honesty Nor Hypocrisy: The Legal Reconstruction of Torture 1. David Downes: An Introduction 2. Beyond Risk: A Lament for Social Democratic Criminology 3. Dangerous People: Beginnings of a New Labour Proposal 4. With Respect to Order, the Rules of the Game have Changed: New Labour's Dominance of the 'Law and Order' Agenda, 5. East Ending: Dissociation, De-industrialization and David Downes 6. Opportunity Makes the Thief-Taker: The Influence of Economic Analysis on Crime Control 7. Contrasts and Concepts: Considering the Development of Comparative Criminology 8. Historicizing Contrasts in Tolerance 9. Contrasts in Intolerance: Cultures of Control in the United States and Britain 10. Governance and Restorative Justice in Cali, Colombia 11. Neither Honesty Nor Hypocrisy: The Legal Reconstruction of Torture

The politics of crime control: essays in honour of David Downes

This article examines the discredited attributes of the public persona of the victim of serious crime. The author considers the construction of the victim and the victim's role within the trial process, looking at arguments which claim that the role of the victim is consider to inject emotionality into the conflicts leading up to and culminating in the criminal trial. Language: en

Paul Rock

Papers

Understanding Deviance: A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-Breaking

The politics of crime control: essays in honour of David Downes

The treatment of victims in England and Wales

Crime, social control and human rights: from moral panics to states of denial

The Social Organization of a Home Office Initiative