With popular culture beginning to dabble in the reality of incarceration, I had a basic understanding of criminality as an identity, but this chapter of Solomon's book gave me a better understanding of how it exists as a horizontal identity compared to the others that I have more personal experience with. One aspect that I now see as an obvious connection is the lack of support and funding.
"...'The government should put more money into rehabilitating criminals so that they have a chance to turn their lives around. Most of us want to, if we can just figure out how'" (p. 568).
Mass incarceration has been at the level of an epidemic for years in America. The reason it has not improved and individuals feel stuck and victimized by the system could be an entire research project on its own.
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Solomon, A. (2012). Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity. New York: Scribner Classics.
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