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After life imprisonment : reentry in the era of mass incarceration / Marieke Liem ; foreword by Robert J. Sampson.
LIBRA HV9304 .L54 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liem, Marieke, author.
- Series:
- New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners--Deinstitutionalization--United States.
- Prisoners.
- Murderers--United States.
- Murderers.
- Life imprisonment--Social aspects--United States.
- Life imprisonment.
- Ex-convicts--United States--Social conditions.
- Ex-convicts.
- Ex-convicts--United States--Economic conditions.
- Recidivism--United States.
- Recidivism.
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Social aspects.
- Prisoners--Deinstitutionalization.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 267 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- One out of Every Ten prisoners in the United States is serving a life sentence-roughly 130,000 people. While some have been sentenced to life in prison without parole, the majority of prisoners serving "life" will be released back into society. But what becomes of those people who reenter the everyday world after serving life in prison? In After Life Imprisonment, Marieke Liem carefully examines the experiences of lifers after their release. Through interviews with more than sixty homicide offenders sentenced to life but granted parole, Liem tracks those able to build a new life on the outside and those who were reincarcerated. The interviews reveal convicts' reflections on being sentenced to life, as well as, after they have been released on parole, the challenges of employment, housing, and interpersonal relationships. Liem explores the rise of life sentences, a trend she attributes to policy changes, and specifically provides a basis for discussions of the goals, costs, and effects of long-term imprisonment. Furthering theoretical understanding of crime across the lifespan, this book ultimately unpacks public policy and discourse surrounding long-term incarceration. A profound criminological examination, After Life Imprisonment reveals the often-untold, lived experiences of prisoners before and after their life sentences. In the New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law series. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Understanding desistance
- The context
- Lives spiraling out of control
- A life sentence
- A productive, law-abiding citizen
- Life after life imprisonment
- Residual effects of imprisonment
- Going back
- Staying out
- Reconsidering lifer reentry
- Notes.
- Notes:
- "Study of over sixty homicide offenders who served long sentences before being released"--Foreword.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781479806928
- 1479806927
- 9781479882823
- 1479882828
- OCLC:
- 945669013
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