Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives

摘要: Can hardened criminals really reform? "Making Good" provides resounding proof that the answer is yes. This book a fascinating narrative analysis of lives repeat offenders who, by all statistical measures, should have continued on criminal path but instead created productivity and purpose. examination phenomenology "making good" includes an encyclopedic review literature personal reform as well practical guide to use narratives in offender counseling rehabilitation.The author's research shows who desist from crime constructed powerful aided them making sense their pasts, finding fulfillment productive behaviors, feeling control future. Borrowing field psychology, Maruna argues truly understand offenders, we must stories they tell - turn this story-making process has capacity transform lives. challenges some cherished assumptions various therapy models for supports new paradigms rehabilitation. groundbreaking read criminologists, forensic psychologists, lawyers, rehabilitation counselors, or anyone interested generative change.