Life Beyond Murder

Exploring the Identity Reconstruction of Mandatory Lifers After Release

Dan Gabriel Rusu (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-54197-6 (ISBN)

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Detailing the resettlement narratives of five men who have committed different types of murder (confrontational/revenge, financial gain, random, intimate partner femicide, and family feud), this book counters narratives of neoliberal, ‘responsibilizing’ messages of individualism to investigate what informs their experiences of resettlement.

Life Beyond Murder: Exploring the Identity Reconstruction of Mandatory Lifers After Release explores the impact of mandatory lifers’ institutionalisation, families, consumer culture, emotions, and supervision, considering how these factors hamper or assist with their transition from the stigmatising identity of being ‘dangerous murderers’. The book’s discussion is guided by the men’s narratives, employing a ‘tug of war’ metaphor to elucidate the ‘push-pull forces’ that influence the men’s efforts to reconstruct their lives in the years following their release.

To be successful, the book argues, these men have to reconcile a paradoxical situation, and the most skilled mandatory lifers manage to relativise their involvement in murder whilst concomitantly showing remorse. This situation is achieved through a Splitting Narrative that ultimately defends against anxiety, contains internal stigma, and often showcases self-flagellant remorse, as they move towards positive social identities such as philanthropists, family men, wounded healers, and pious members of the church.

Dan Gabriel Rusu, PhD, is a lecturer in criminology at Birmingham City University, a graduate member of the British Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

AcknowledgementsGeneral Editor’s Introduction - Stephen Farrall

1. Introduction
2. Desistance, identity, and mandatory lifers
3. Barriers to resettlement: exploring new pathways for mandatory lifers
4. Initial release transition: family formation and employment
5. Negotiating the prison voice
6. Pursuing identities of success: Mandatory Lifers and consumer culture
7. Experiencing Supervision
8. Living in the Shadow of Guilt: Performing Remorse
9. Life beyond murder: The Splitting Narrative
10. Managing shame: Hierarchies of moral abomination
11. Conclusion

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-032-54197-0 / 1032541970
ISBN-13	978-1-032-54197-6 / 9781032541976
Zustand	Neuware