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- Title
Constructing Clean Dreams: Accounts, Future Selves, and Social and Structural Support as Desistance Work.
- Authors
Harris, Alexes
- Abstract
The article presents the study which analyses the desisting process and its influencing factors in criminal offenders. It states that 28 criminal offenders who are enrolled in reentry programs were surveyed and interviewed on various issues including their past criminal actions, future selves, and social support. Result shows that the excuses for past actions offered the desistance decision to keep a self that is worthy of redemption, while the social support permitted hope for change.
- Subjects
CRIMINAL psychology; CRIMINAL behavior; CRIMINALS; EXCUSES; SOCIAL support; SELF-esteem; INTERVIEWING
- Publication
Symbolic Interaction, 2011, Vol 34, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
0195-6086
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1525/si.2011.34.1.63