From stigma to community’s discrimination : the experience of 16 former prisoners in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Mohd Alif Jasni, Siti Hajar Abu Bakar Ah, Jal Zabdi Mohd Yusoff, Nini Syaheera Jasni, Khairiyah Md Shahid, Noralina Omar, Zaiton Azman
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19858/1/33158-103111-1-SM.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19858/; https://ejournal.ukm.my/ebangi/issue/view/1185
• Institution: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Discrimination and stigma have been found to be one of the foremost factors that thwarted former prisoners to integrate well when released from prison. The effects of the discrimination that caused the former prisoners to be marginalized and disowned when to live in the original place. Rejection fro...