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Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives
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Maruna as discussed by the authors 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, and 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.Abstract:
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.read more
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The psychology of life stories.
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A new Big Five: fundamental principles for an integrative science of personality.
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Understanding Desistance from Crime
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TL;DR: The study of desistance from crime is hampered by definitional, measurement, and theoretical incoherence as mentioned in this paper, and a unifying framework can distinguish termination of offending from the process of desistanc...
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A Life-Course View of the Development of Crime
Robert J. Sampson,John H. Laub +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a life-course perspective on crime and a critique of the developmental criminology paradigm, arguing that persistent offending and desistance can be meaningfully understood within the same theoretical framework, namely, a revised agegraded theory of informal social control.
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The Criminal Career Paradigm
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