RT Article
T1 Moral shocks and small wins: Encouraging firms based in liberal societies to behave integratively towards former prisoners
JF Punishment & society
VO 19
IS 4
SP 417
OP 439
A1 Burns, Prue
A1 Cooney, Richard
A1 Nyland, Chris 1949-
A1 Schapper, Jan
A2 Cooney, Richard
A2 Nyland, Chris 1949-
A2 Schapper, Jan
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1743173415
AB In this article, we contend that employers’ willingness to provide former prisoners with integrative forms of employment is related to the extent to which liberal societies abstract, idealise and prioritise the interests of the self over the interests of society. Using the United States of America as a critical case to illustrate this argument, we unite the neoinstitutional sociology of organisations with Weick’s small wins approach to problem solving to show how an especially individualistic embodiment of liberalism contributes to the construction of a social and institutional reality that discourages firms from behaving integratively towards former prisoners. In so doing, we produce a conceptual framework that points to ways by which the scarcity of integrative firms within individualist liberal societies might be addressed.
K1 Employer attitudes
K1 Ex-offenders
K1 Ex-prisoners
K1 Liberal individualism
K1 Liberalism
K1 Neoinstitutionalism
K1 new institutionalism
K1 Prisoner re-entry
K1 Prisoner reintegration
DO 10.1177/1462474516662879