Constructing clean dreams: Accounts, future selves, and social and structural support as desistance work

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-85

  Harris, Alexes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounts; Desistance; Future selves; Urban poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954557783     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: 15338665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/si.2011.34.1.63     Document Type: Article

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