{"product_id":"a-culture-of-second-chances-9781498553988","title":"A Culture of Second Chances","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines the iconic presence of second chances in everyday life. David Newman explores its various iterations in popular culture, commercial marketplaces, religion, intimate relationships, education, criminal justice, and human bodies. He analyzes how this conceptas a cultural aspiration, driver of policy, and lived personal experiencehas become part and parcel of our individual sense of self and our collective national identity. While the rhetoric of second chances is familiar and ubiquitous, Newman uncovers their costs and constraints, paying particular attention to the importance of judgments of deservedness. Informed by an array of data sources including personal interviews, mission statements of nonprofit recovery agencies, images in popular culture, stories from the news, plot summaries of novels, and scriptural texts, Newman frames the second chance experience as the quintessential cultural paradox: a concept that simultaneously represents the pinnacle of our shared ho\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: The Ubiquitous Second Chance  Chapter 2: A Theory of Second Chances  Chapter 3: The Spiritual Second Chance  Chapter 4: The Post-Criminal Second Chance  Chapter 5: The Intimate Second Chance  Chapter 6: The Bodily Second Chance  Chapter 7: The Educational Second Chance  Chapter 8: The Cultural and Commercial Second Chance  Chapter 9: No Second Chance  Chapter 10: The Elusive Second Chance: A Right or a Privilege?","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040762822999,"sku":"9781498553988","price":98.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498553988.jpg?v=1750947765","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-culture-of-second-chances-9781498553988","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}