Untitled Flashcard Set

Collateral Consequences

  • Problems people face after prison while reintegrating into society

  • Examples: job barriers, housing restrictions, stigma, loss of rights

Condemnation Scripts

  • Negative self-stories

  • Person feels doomed to keep offending

  • Feelings of helplessness and lack of control

Language of Agency

  • Belief that a person can control their choices and future

Passive Self Narratives

  • Seeing life as controlled by outside forces instead of personal choice

The Empty Self

  • Feeling emotionally empty or lacking purpose/identity

The Big Score / Identity Nakedness

  • Using thrills, crime, or excitement to fill emptiness

Avoid Single, Polyglot Categories

  • People are complex and cannot all be treated the same way

  • No one-size-fits-all rehabilitation approach

Risk-Needs-Responsivity (RNR) Model

  • Focuses on reducing recidivism

  • Risk = high-risk people need more treatment

  • Needs = target causes of crime

  • Responsivity = treatment should fit the person

Good Lives Model (GLM)

  • Focuses on helping people build meaningful lives

  • People commit crime while trying to meet normal human needs in unhealthy ways

Primary Human Goods

  • Basic needs all people want

  • Examples: relationships, happiness, purpose, community, autonomy

Coherent Narratives

  • Logical life stories explaining why someone changed

Redemption Scripts

  • Positive self-stories focused on change and hope

  • Person sees themselves as good at their core

  • Criminal past is not the “real me”

Tragic Optimism

  • Finding meaning and purpose despite suffering

External Catalysts for Change

  • Outside influences that help people change

  • Examples: mentors, jobs, family, religion

Operating at 110%

  • Fully committing to a positive new identity

  • Example: trying to be the best worker possible

Generativity

  • Giving back to others and society

  • Important part of desistance

Generativity as Fulfillment

  • Helping others creates purpose and meaning

Generativity as Restitution

  • Giving back to repair past harm

Generativity as Legitimacy

  • Helping others proves someone has changed

Generativity as Therapy

  • Helping others helps heal oneself emotionally

Redemption Rituals

  • Public recognition of someone’s positive change

  • Examples: graduations, recovery celebrations

Rebiographing

  • Rewriting and reconstructing one’s life story positively

System-Level Changes

  • Policies that make reentry easier

  • Examples: expungement, certificates of relief, ending registration requirements

Desistance

  • Process of stopping criminal behavior

RNR vs GLM

  • RNR = reducing risk and criminal behavior

  • GLM = building a meaningful positive life