The ex-prisoner's dilemma : how women negotiate competing narratives of reentry and desistance / Andrea M. Leverentz.

Author: Leverentz, Andrea M., 1973-

Imprint:New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]

Descriptionx, 231 pages ; 23 cm.

Note:The mercy home and the discourse of reentry and desistance -- Introducing the women and their pathways to offending -- A year in the life : evolving perspectives on desistance and reentry -- Family dynamics in reentry and desistance -- Women's chosen relationships and their role in self-redefinition -- Education, employment, and a house of one's own: conventional markers of success.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.

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