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This book examines the services in and around the public domain. The author analyses a number of socio-cultural changes that are generally considered relevant to these services, including the rationalising efforts of the New Public Management and the introduction of IT. The book particularly addresses the diversity of services. It focuses on the local complexities of their day to day processes of service delivery, and on the diversity of client experiences and professional roles associated with various client relationships. A practical objective of this book is to encourage its readers to 'redefine' the services they professionally deal with, and move beyond the standard requirements of the New Public Management that are so often taken for granted as a starting point. Professional managers are, for instance, invited to reconsider their currently quite dominant 'technical' managerial perspective. Service professionals are encouraged to make sense of the risks and responsibilities involved with their day to day negotiations, including the impact of the services on the lives of their clients. Gastelaars adopts and interpretive approach to her subject, combining discourse analysis and ethnographic research to concentrate on the actual practices associated with service delivery, rather than on theories and justifications.

Table of Contents:
1. Identity Transformation and Offender Change 2. Moments of Transformation: Formerly Incarcerated Individuals' Narratives of Change 3. Looking-glass Identity Transformation: Pygmalion and Golem in the Rehabilitation Process 4. Former Prisoners, Their Family Members, and the Transformative Potential of Support 5. 'I Got A Quick Tongue': Negotiating Ex-Convict Identity in Mixed Company 6. Thinking Inside the Box: Prisoner Education, Learning Identities, and the Possibilities for Change 7. Accounts of Change and Resistance Among Women Prisoners 8. Parole Supervision, Change in the Self, and Desistance from Substance Use and Crime 9. Identity Change Through the Transformation Model of L.I.F.E.R.S., Inc. 10. Formerly Incarcerated Persons' Use of Advocacy/Activism as a Coping Orientation in the Reintegration Process 11. Lessons Learned About Offender Change: Implications for Criminal Justice Policy

About the Author :
Bonita Veysey, Johnna Christian, and Damian J. Martinez are all based at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University.

Review :
'This collection of 11 articles reflects the enduring significance of symbolic interactionism as a source of insights worth putting into practice with incarcerated populations and those facing the challenges of reentry to society. Each contribution addresses the pressing concern for evidence-based approaches that can convincingly respond to the "what works?" question, which continues to dominate criminal justice debates. Some are more convincing than others are, but the rich detail of mostly qualitative data about offenders' navigation away from stigmatized identities is thought provoking. The applications of theory are appropriate and affecting, achieving an intelligent prescription for more attention to the dynamics of relationship and interpersonal communication in both prison and community-based programs. Understandably, extensive concerns with addiction recovery efforts are explored as essential to the prospects for desistence from crime. The authors share compelling illustrations of how group interactions influence individual narratives and self-transformation. Concern with the currencies of socially constructed meaning is connected to more distant outcomes of lifestyle change more by persuasion than by available longitudinal data, leaving the answer to "what works?" still a work in progress. Nevertheless, their logic bears broad consideration by professionals in corrections. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.' - R. Zingraff, James Madison University in Choice


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781134028498
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Willan Publishing
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1134028490
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jan 2013
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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