Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner

by Diana F Johns

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138665894
• ISBN13: 9781138665897
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.1" x 6.4"