Making Good in Unpromising Places: the Development and Cultivation of Redemption Scripts Among Long-Term Prisoners

Generally regarded as an institution which frustrates rather than enables the process of desisting from crime, the potential for prisoners to find redemption in prison seems bleak. Despite unpromising conditions within the prison, we find strong evidence of reform and a desire to make amends among a...

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Main Author: Bullock, Karen (Author)
Contributors: McCarthy, Daniel P. ; Bunce, Annie
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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