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White-Collar Offenders and Desistance from Crime

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Future selves and the constancy of change

White-Collar Offenders and Desistance from Crime

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White-Collar Offenders and Desistance from Crime book

Future selves and the constancy of change
ByBen Hunter
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 23 March 2015
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315760575
Pages 226
eBook ISBN 9781315760575
Subjects Law, Social Sciences
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Hunter, B. (2015). White-Collar Offenders and Desistance from Crime: Future selves and the constancy of change (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315760575

ABSTRACT

The MPs’ expenses scandal in England and Wales and the international banking crisis have both brought into focus a concern about ‘elite’ individuals and their treatment by criminal justice systems. This interest intersects with a well-established concern within criminology for the transgressions of such offenders. However, up until now there has been little sustained consideration of what happens to such offenders following conviction and little discussion of how they attempt to avoid reoffending in the wake of their punishment.

This study rectifies this omission by drawing upon white-collar offenders’ own accounts of their punishment and their attempts to make new lives in the aftermath of it. Detailing the impact of imprisonment on white-collar offenders, their release from prison and efforts to be successful again, this book outlines the particular strategies white-collar offenders used to cope with the difficulties they encountered and also analyses the ways they tried to work out ‘who they were’ in the post-release worlds they found themselves in.

Representing the first sustained qualitative study of white-collar offenders and desistance from crime, this book will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of white-collar crime, desistance from crime and prison. The insights it offers into a particular group of offenders’ experience of criminal justice would also make it useful for criminal justice practitioners and anyone who wishes to understand the challenges faced by a group of offenders who are assumed to have many advantages when it comes to desisting from crime.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |9 pages

Introduction: white-collar offenders and desistance from crime

chapter 1|18 pages

The challenge of white-collar offenders’ desistance

chapter 2|18 pages

Searching for the self

chapter 3|15 pages

Autobiography and the search for ‘truth’

chapter 4|22 pages

Imprisonment and the assault on the self

chapter 5|24 pages

Who am I? Self and identity in the post-punishment world

chapter 6|22 pages

The journey to self: success, failure and change

chapter 7|22 pages

Becoming who one was: professional-ex roles

chapter 8|25 pages

Becoming who one is: religious conversion narratives and desistance

chapter 9|12 pages

An existentially informed understanding of desistance

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