After life imprisonment : reentry in the era of mass incarceration /

After life imprisonment : reentry in the era of mass incarceration /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Liem, Marieke, author.
Imprint:	New York : New York University Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	267 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series.
Subject:	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. Ex-convicts -- Economic conditions. Ex-convicts -- Social conditions. Murderers. Prisoners -- Deinstitutionalization. Recidivism. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10829313

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Other authors / contributors:	Sampson, Robert J., 1956- writer of foreword.
ISBN:	9781479806928 1479806927 9781479882823 1479882828
Notes:	"Study of over sixty homicide offenders who served long sentences before being released"--Foreword. Includes bibliographical references pages 225-[260] and index. Also available as an e-book.

Table of 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.