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[ Academia ] : ++ { HIGHLY RELEVANT } ++ Contemporary, multifaceted (yet concise), provocative, edited volume on rehabilitation/redemption of criminals, with contents including: applying redemption through film -- challenging the sacred-secular divide by Christopher Deacy; steps towards desistance among male young adult recidivists by Anthony Bottoms and Joanna Shapland; Youth justice?: the impact of system contact on patterns of desistance by Lesley McAra and Susan McVie; feminist research, state power and executed women -- the case of Louie Calvert by Anette Ballinger; paths of exclusion, inclusion & desistance -- understanding marginalized young people's criminal careers by Robert MacDonald, et al; the reintegration of sexual offenders -- from a "risks" to a "strengths-based" model of offender resettlement by Anne-Marie McAlinden; all in the family -- the importance of support, tolerance and forgiveness in the desistance of male Bangladeshi offenders by Adam Calverley; inside-out -- transitions from prison to everyday life -- a qualitative longitudinal approach by Mechthild Bereswill; "I can't make my own future": white-collar offenders' anticipation of release from prison by Ben Hunter; and, life after punishment for Nazi war criminals -- reputation, careers and normative climate in post-war Germany by Susanne Karstedt.