Making Good How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives

Shadd Maruna, PhD, is an assistant professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Albany, where he teaches courses in community corrections, rehabilitative interventions, and drug addiction treatment. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, an H. F. Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fellow of the Joint Center for Poverty Research in Chicago. His doctoral thesis, "Redeeming One's Self: How Reformed Ex-Offenders Make Sense of Their Lives," was awarded the Phi Delta Kappa Outstanding Dissertation Award for Northwestern University in 1998. He spends his free time with his daughter Zara and volunteering as a tutor in a local correctional facilityMaruna, Shadd is the author of 'Making Good How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives', published 2000 under ISBN 9781557987310 and ISBN 1557987319.