| Description |
1 online resource (209 pages) |
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text file |
| Summary |
This book argues for the importance of communication when facing problems associated with probation and parole. Based on the use of story-telling and listening as a way to influence behavior, the authors include fourteen fictionalized, reality-based narratives, which portray the reality of life within a large city's violent urban core. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and index. |
| Contents |
Telling stories -- Challenges -- Communication paradigm -- Writing the narratives -- Communication barriers for probation and parole -- Moses on his own : a child of violence -- Sylvia : from Juarez to Kansas City -- Paul : an expired shelf life -- Jamal : a rain garden -- Tony : the old con -- Jon : messages from intolerance -- Rick : a parent's cry for help -- Rhonda : communication and a female sex offender -- Margaret : a misunderstanding -- Kenny : the saga of a rapper -- Daniel : missing -- Jason : 'til death do we part -- Pete : sins of the father -- Carlos : from Cuba to prison -- Epilogue. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Criminals -- Missouri -- Kansas City -- Biography.
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Criminals. |
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Missouri -- Kansas City. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Parole -- Missouri -- Kansas City.
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Parole. |
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Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- Missouri -- Kansas City.
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Criminals -- Rehabilitation. |
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Kansas City (Mo.) -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes.
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Electronic books.
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Anecdotes.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Anecdotes.
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| Added Author |
Aitken, Joan E.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780773436930 |
| ISBN |
9780773421837 |
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0773421831 |
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9780773436930 |
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0773436936 |
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