International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
About the Book Series
In recent years there has been a dramatic growth in the attention given to the end of the criminal career. The study of desistance has now become an important aspect of the criminological enterprise. This series offers original and innovative books that explore the processes of desistance from crime and the factors that influence rehabilitation and reform.
Youth Desistance in Transition: Navigating Change in Late Adolescence
1st Edition
By Christopher Kay
October 20, 2025
This book offers a new and innovative way of thinking about desistance from crime, fusing our understanding of desistance transitions, youth transitions, and the impact of significant policy change on people with convictions in a way which is yet to be seen in the available desistance literature. ...
Gender, Prison and Reentry Experiences: A Matter of Time
1st Edition
By Silvia Gomes, Dixie Rocker
August 29, 2025
This book explores the unique reentry experiences of incarcerated men and women who are about to be released from prisons in Portugal. By analysing gendered reentry experiences through the narratives of men and women, Gender, Prison and Reentry Experiences sheds light on current practices and ...
Comparing Pathways of Desistance: An International Perspective
1st Edition
By Ruwani Fernando
July 31, 2025
This book presents a comparative study of desistance from crime by analysing and comparing the narratives of English and French desisters. In doing so, it uncovers how national and structural differences may lead to varying individual pathways out of crime. Comparing Pathways of Desistance draws on...
British Pakistanis and Desistance: Poverty, Prison and Identity
1st Edition
By Mohammed Qasim, Colin Webster
May 06, 2025
Focusing on the lives of first- and second-generation British Pakistani young adult men and those approaching middle age who offend or have offended and the experiences of their fathers bringing them up in a de-industrialised city, this book examines the influence of social relations on their moves...
Understanding Desistance from Crime and Social and Community (Re)integration
1st Edition
Edited
By Isabelle F. Dufour, Natacha Brunelle, Roxanne Couture-Dubé, David Henry
May 06, 2025
This book gives voice to justice-involved Canadian youth and young adults by sharing their views on their journey towards desistance from crime and social and community (re)integration. Building on interviews with 140 justice-involved youth and young adults (aged 16 to 35), the book explores the ...
Trusting Recovery and Desistance: The Social Components Model of Recovery from Addiction and Desistance from Crime
1st Edition
By Lauren Hall
April 14, 2025
The social processes which underpin and shape our lives have the power to significantly transform the trajectories of people experiencing recovery from addiction and desistance from crime. Recovery from addiction and desistance from crime are processes which are often experienced and supported in ...
Desistance, Resistance, and Normalcy
1st Edition
By Tea Fredriksson, Robin Gålnander
March 26, 2025
This book provides a nuanced, critical analysis of desistance from crime, particularly through the lens of women’s experiences. It develops desistance theory by interrogating the concept of normalcy, highlighting how normative societal expectations cause harms on desistance journeys. Through this ...
Women's Desistance in a Colonial Context: Lived Experiences from Aotearoa New Zealand
1st Edition
By Grace Low
February 19, 2025
This book adds to global knowledge of pathways out of crime (desistance) by exploring the desistance narratives of 15 women with histories of imprisonment in Aotearoa New Zealand (10 of whom identify as Māori, New Zealand’s Indigenous population). By voicing these women’s experiences, the book adds...
Women, Stigma, and Desistance from Crime: Precarious Identities in the Transition to Adulthood
1st Edition
By Gilly Sharpe
January 30, 2025
How do young women negotiate their identity in the shadow of a criminal past? What expectations can these women have and what constraints do they face in embracing change and reform? In this new book, Gilly Sharpe returns to the group of women interviewed in her bestselling book Offending Girls, to...
Living with Desistance: Breaking the Cycle
1st Edition
By David Honeywell
December 18, 2024
In this new and distinctive contribution to the desistance literature, Dr David Honeywell draws on his own lived experience to consider his route through youth delinquency and prison to a life away from crime through education, and ultimately towards academia. Drawing on perspectives from ...
The Unmaking of Crime: Contexts, Pathways, and Representations of the Processes of Desistance on the Parisian Ground
1st Edition
By Valerian Benazeth
November 29, 2024
The Unmaking of Crime documents the pathways of offenders reforming their journey and desisting from crime, and assesses the opportunities and limitations of the criminal justice system in aiding this process. Starting with known factors involved in desistance — the influence of family, ...
Life Beyond Murder: Exploring the Identity Reconstruction of Mandatory Lifers After Release
1st Edition
By Dan Gabriel Rusu
November 18, 2024
Detailing the resettlement narratives of five men who have committed different types of murder (confrontational/revenge, financial gain, random, intimate partner femicide, and family feud), this book counters narratives of neoliberal, ‘responsibilizing’ messages of individualism to investigate what...