Making sense of going straight: Personal accounts of male Ex-Prisoners in Hong Kong

British Journal of Criminology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 577-590

  Adorjan, Michael ^a   Chui, Wing Hong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

Author keywords

desistance; going straight; Hong Kong; narratives; social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859796031     PISSN: 00070955     EISSN: 14643529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azr093     Document Type: Article

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