Moral shocks and small wins: Encouraging firms based in liberal societies to behave integratively towards former prisoners

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 a...

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Authors: Burns, Prue (Author) ; Cooney, Richard (Author) ; Nyland, Chris 1949- (Author) ; Schapper, Jan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Punishment & society
Year: 2017, Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 417-439
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Employer attitudes
Ex-offenders
Ex-prisoners
Liberal individualism
Liberalism
Neoinstitutionalism
new institutionalism
Prisoner re-entry
Prisoner reintegration