How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance
by
Andrea M. Leverentz
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
When a woman leaves prison, she enters a world of competing messages and conflicting advice. Staff from prison, friends, family members, workers at halfway houses and treatment programs all have something to say about who she is, who she should be, and what she should do. The Ex-Prisoner’s Dilemma...