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The author considers punishment in the US in terms of reentry, desistance, and the responsibility of the state to those who are punished, illustrating the importance of empowerment, meaning, and assimilation for former prisoners. He argues that justice practices should be about people and not about populations and illustrates the need to reconsider the criminal desistance literature as assimilation in terms of meaning, empowerment, hope, and relationships. He discusses processes of desistance, the role of isolation in antisocial behavior, the role of powerlessness, the role of norms in reducing criminal behavior, and the need to counter meaninglessness, incorporating parts of an incarcerated man's journal throughout. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *

The author considers punishment in the US in terms of reentry, desistance, and the responsibility of the state to those who are punished, illustrating the importance of empowerment, meaning, and assimilation for former prisoners. He argues that justice practices should be about people and not about populations and illustrates the need to reconsider the criminal desistance literature as assimilation in terms of meaning, empowerment, hope, and relationships. He discusses processes of desistance, the role of isolation in antisocial behavior, the role of powerlessness, the role of norms in reducing criminal behavior, and the need to counter meaninglessness, incorporating parts of an incarcerated man's journal throughout.--Annotation (c)2018 (protoview.com)

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Stephen C. McGuinn is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Quinnipiac University, USA. Prior to pursuing his doctorate, he worked as a mental health professional and as an Assistant Unit Chief on Rikers Island in New York City. Every year, he teaches an Inside Out Prison Exchange seminar in a maximum-security prison in Connecticut.

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