Ex-offender reintegration : theory and practice / Shadd Maruna, Russ Immarigeon, and Thomas P. LeBel -- Reintegration and restorative justice : towards a theory and practice of informal social control and support / Gordon Bazemore and Carsten Erbe -- Social capital and offender reintegration : making probation desistance focused / Stephen Farrall -- Connecting desistance and recidivism : measuring changes in criminality over the lifespan / Shawn D. Bushway, Robert Brame and Raymond Paternoster -- Somewhere between persistence and desistance : the intermittency of criminal careers / Alex R. Piquero -- Jail or the army : does military service facilitate desistance from crime? / Leana Allen Bouffard and John H. Lamb -- To reoffend or not to reoffend? : the ambivalence of convicted property offenders / Ros Burnett -- Desistance from crime : is it different for women and girls? / Gill McIvor, Cathy Murray and Janet Jamieson -- Beating the perpetual incarceration machine : overcoming structural impediments to re-entry / Stephen C. Richards and Richard S. Jones -- With eyes wide open : formalizing community and social control intervention in offender reintegration programmes / Faye S. Taxman, Douglas Young and James M. Byrne -- 'Less than the average citizen' : stigma, role transition and the civic reintegration of convicted felons / Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza and Angela Behrens
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Drawn from top criminologists in the US and UK, each of the contributors applies criminological theory to the question of how best to reintegrate ex-offenders into the community, giving voice to the ex prisoner in a way that is rarely heard in criminological research or policy debates around resettlement