Akademisk avhandling--Historia--Göteborgs universitet, 2004. / Résumé en anglais. Bibliogr. p. 259-267.

This is a qualitative research project about the experiences of forty-six former drug detainees who had been incarcerated because of illicit drug use. I examine their painful experiences of being arrested, imprisoned, and their experiences of post-released lives. I did the formal fieldwork in 2012. I have adopted a qualitative approach for my study. I stayed in Zhiyang for six months and Motai, another Chinese city, for one week in 2012 (both Zhiyang and Motai are not the real name of the cities). In 2013, I went back to Zhiyang again to reconfirm some of the data that I had collected. I had met forty-six former prisoners who were willing to share their stories with me. I have done semi-structured interviews with forty-three of them and participated in their formal and informal social gatherings. Behind their painful experiences, I would demonstrate, is a fundamental contradiction between the unrealistically ideal Party propaganda, which is made according to “exemplary norms”, and the everyday actual practices of the police officers and the prisoner officers. These realities are based on a variety of practical norms guided by different bureaucratic rules and regulations. Throughout the process, I will show, former drug detainees had suffered from physical pain, shame and degradation instead of being “rehabilitated”. The discussion in this thesis is first and foremost about a failed system of rehabilitation, but also mirrors a more general system of hypocrisy as it unfolds in contemporary China. / published_or_final_version / Sociology / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Thesis (D. Min.)--Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-166).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Delaware, 2007. / Principal faculty advisor: Donald G. Unger, Dept. of Individual & Family Studies. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Eastern Illinois University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-99).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Hamburg, 1973. / Includes bibliographical references (p. ix-xxiii).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-71).

Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University, 2006. / Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 57 p. Includes bibliographical references.

Texte remanié de: Th. Ph. D.--Oxford, 1984. / Bibliogr. p. 361-393. Index.

Thesis submitted in part fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy (Community Psychology) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Zululand, 2006. / A number of ex-combattees in South Africa have been faced with several problems covering socio-economic to psychological difficulties since they returned to the country Many of them are apparently stressed, but the unemployed ones seem to be the most affected. They are found mainly in trauma clinics in South Africa. However, no study has been undertaken to determine their various specific problems. This is the first formal study which explores the ex-combattees. The intention of this research was to explore the experiences of ex-combattees in the Gauteng Province using a phenomenological approach. The violent conflicts of South Africa's liberation struggle left many ex-combattees with post-traumatic stress disorders. While various governmental and non-governmental organisations have offered trauma counselling and various other forms of support for ex-combattees. many have not re¬integrated into society Some live without dignity in situations of extreme poverty and social dislocation or become involved in violent crime as well as ongoing political and social instability in the communities where they reside. As pan of an ongoing trauma counselling programme, this research explicated narrations from e\-combattees with regard to their experiences and solutions to their problems in terms of a model, which included psycho-social support, skills development, economic empowerment, education, training, job placement and small business development. The unemployed ex-combattees feel sold out by their comrades, and some of them have lost trust in the government. Some of their families members do not believe that they were at equal levels with the ones who were placed in government posts and in the arm>. They have some suspicions that their unemployed ex-combattee family members contributed to the struggle in the same way as they explained. Some frictions have emerged between the ex-combattees and their families, as well as between ex-combattees and communities in which they live.