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.
Transitions Out of Crime: New Approaches on Desistance in Late Adolescence
1st Edition
By Catalina Droppelmann
October 09, 2024
This book contributes to our knowledge of desistance in a developing country. Offering an intercultural dialogue with mainstream explanations, Transitions Out of Crime analyses the transition from crime to conformity among a group of Chilean juvenile offenders. Desistance from crime is not just ...
Peer Support in Prison: How Incarcerated People make Meaning through Active Citizenship
1st Edition
By Christian Perrin
September 23, 2024
This book explores the profound impact of peer support within the bleak landscape of incarceration. In a system bereft of opportunities for personal growth, the narratives within these pages reveal how individuals who have committed offences rebuild their lives by ‘giving back’ and establishing ...
Rethinking What Works with Offenders: Probation, Social Context and Desistance from Crime
1st Edition
By Stephen Farrall
May 27, 2024
When it was published twenty years ago, Rethinking What Works with Offenders made a major contribution to criminological knowledge on why people stopped offending, and the impact the probation service had on the desistance process. Unlike other studies that had relied on official conviction data, ...
Prison Education and Desistance: Changing Perspectives
1st Edition
By Geraldine Cleere
June 30, 2022
This book explores prisoners’ experiences of prison education and investigates whether participation in prison education contributes to an offender’s ability to desist from crime and increases social capital levels. While the link between prison education and reduced rates of recidivism is well ...
Governing Delinquency Through Freedom: Control, Rehabilitation and Desistance
1st Edition
By Géraldine Bugnon
April 29, 2022
This book analyses the non-custodial government of young offenders in two major cities in Brazil. In doing so, it delves into the paradox of an institution exerting control over youths while at the same time promoting their autonomy and responsibility. The study sheds light on the specific logics ...
Positive Growth and Redemption in Prison: Finding Light Behind Bars and Beyond
1st Edition
By Lila Kazemian
March 31, 2021
Although the negative consequences of rising incarceration rates have been well-established, criminological research has largely neglected to document psychological, social, and behavioral changes that occur during periods of incarceration. Drawing on an original longitudinal study of long-term ...
Penal Cultures and Female Desistance
1st Edition
By Linnéa Österman
July 31, 2020
This book makes a unique contribution to the internationalisation of criminological knowledge about gender and desistance through a qualitative cross-national exploration of the female route out of crime in Sweden and England. By situating the female desistance journey in diverse penal cultures, ...
Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner
1st Edition
By Diana Johns
February 04, 2019
Despite broad scholarship documenting the compounding effects and self-reproducing character of incarceration, ways of conceptualising imprisonment and the post-prison experience have scarcely changed in over a century. Contemporary correctional thinking has congealed around notions of risk and ...
Women's Transitions from Prison: The Post-Release Experience
1st Edition
By Rosemary Sheehan, Chris Trotter
January 31, 2019
Women continue to be one of the fastest growing groups of offenders with an increasing group of women involved in the criminal justice system around the world. Whilst internationally women comprise a low percentage of the total prison population, there is an escalating use of custody inextricably ...
Rehabilitation Work: Supporting Desistance and Recovery
1st Edition
By Hannah Graham
February 06, 2018
Conversations about rehabilitation and how to address the drugs-crime nexus have been dominated by academics and policymakers, without due recognition of the experience and knowledge of practitioners. Not enough is known about the cultures and conditions in which rehabilitation occurs. Why is it ...
Therapeutic Correctional Relationships: Theory, research and practice
1st Edition
By Sarah Lewis
June 16, 2017
The relationship between offender and criminal justice practitioner has shifted throughout rehabilitative history, whether situated within psychological interventions, prison or probation. This relationship has evolved and adapted over time, but interpersonal processes remain central to offender ...
Offending and Desistance: The importance of social relations
1st Edition
By Beth Weaver
April 27, 2017
In Offending and Desistance, Beth Weaver examines the role of a co-offending peer group in shaping and influencing offending and desistance, focusing on three phases of their criminal careers: onset, persistence and desistance. While there is consensus across the body of desistance research that ...