‘I am the person now I was always meant to be’: Identity reconstruction and narrative reframing in therapeutic community prisons

By A. Stevens. 2012

137 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Daniel J. O’connell
2. N. Richardson
3. M. Liem
4. Chad Posick
5. Raymond Paternoster
6. S. Bushway
7. M. Rocque
8. Cynthia Rudin

In Sociology and Political Science

1. S. Bushway
2. Daniel J. O’connell
3. N. Richardson
4. M. Liem
5. R. Bachman
6. E. Kerrison
7. Chad Posick
8. Raymond Paternoster

Citations in the corpus

• Human Agency and Explanations of Criminal Desistance: Arguments for a Rational Choice Theory (2015, background): “Based upon intensive in-person interviews, Stevens [73] explored the relationship between identity and offender rehabilitation in three English prison-based therapeutic communities (TCs).”
• Identities Through Time: An Exploration of Identity Change as a Cause of Desistance (2016, background): “Some work has made the case that these programs “work” because they help offenders replace their former antisocial identity with a pro-social one (Stevens, 2012).”
• The Role of Transformation Narratives in Desistance Among Released Lifers (2014, background): “In the “prototypical reform story” (Stevens, 2012), those who were desisting from crime portrayed their past offending as something their “old self” had done, someone who was never the “real me.””