Ex-treme Identities and Transitions Out of Extraordinary Roles

James Hardie-Bick is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at the University of Sussex, UK. Susie Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The Reinventive Self: War Veterans’ Accounts of Trauma, Disillusionment and Reparation.- 3. Exiting an Offender Role: White-Collar Offenders’ Sense of Self and the Demonstration of Change.- 4. When Certainty Cracks: Early Identity-Change Work among Women Exiting High-Cost Religion.- 5. Women Leaving and Losing in Politics: Eulogy Work on a Public Stage.- 6. Identity in Reverse: Exploring ‘Broken Typifications’ and Calibrating ‘Depth’ in Interpretive Inquiry with Ex-Straightedgers.- 7. From Free to Exoneree: A Narrative Analysis of Ex-treme Identity Processes as Expressed through Autobiographical Accounts of Exonerees.- 8. Caring for and Containing the Hateful Other: Schools’ Strategies to Deal with Students with Neo-Nazi Convictions.