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Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-63199-8
- Pages
- 139 –177
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-63200-1_6
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
[This chapter describes the first strategy of desistance which emphasizes a natural style of aging out or knifing off. There were two specific approaches here: “resign” and “rebuild.” Men who “resigned” simply gave up, very consciously withdrawing from their “old life” which often featured a prolific and versatile criminal career. The remaining men described “retiring” and did so equally voluntarily and straightforwardly but had also demonstrated deliberate efforts to “rebuild” their lives and “rebound” in a way that invokes the recent literature on post-traumatic growth.]
Published: Nov 28, 2017