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I wanted to feel the way they did: Mimesis as a situational dynamic of peer mentoring by ex-offenders
Buck, Gillian
Buck, Gillian
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2016-10-10
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Despite growing enthusiasm for peer mentoring as a criminal justice intervention, very little is known about what actually happens within these relationships. Drawing on an ethnographic study of peer mentoring in the North of England this article will foreground the concept of inspiration” in these settings. It will argue that Rene Girard’s theory of mimesis offers a framework with which to analyze role modeling in mentoring relationships and that a Girardian reading also offers interesting insights into the unresolved problem of the origins of personal change.
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Buck, G. (2016). I wanted to feel the way they did: Mimesis as a situational dynamic of peer mentoring by ex-offenders. Deviant Behavior, 38(9), 1027-1041. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2016.1237829
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Taylor & Francis
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Deviant Behavior
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10.1080/01639625.2016.1237829
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Deviant Behavior on 10/10/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01639625.2016.1237829
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1521-0456