The Social Function of Redemption Narratives for Former Offenders
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- abstract
- Former offenders face social stigma that creates significant barriers to successful community re¬entry by reducing opportunities for personal success and relationship building within the community. The present study examines the effect of autobiographical redemption narratives on attitudes toward former offenders.
- subject
- Former offender
- Narrative
- Redemption
- contributor
- Jayawickreme, Eranda (committee chair)
- Greene, Heath (committee member)
- Blee, Lisa (committee member)
- date
- 2017-06-15T08:36:24Z (accessioned)
- 2022-06-01T08:30:13Z (available)
- 2017 (issued)
- degree
- Psychology (discipline)
- embargo
- 2022-06-01 (terms)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/82260 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- The Social Function of Redemption Narratives for Former Offenders
- type
- Thesis