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.
White-Collar Offenders and Desistance from Crime: Future selves and the constancy of change
1st Edition
By Ben Hunter
November 07, 2016
The MPs’ expenses scandal in England and Wales and the international banking crisis have both brought into focus a concern about ‘elite’ individuals and their treatment by criminal justice systems. This interest intersects with a well-established concern within criminology for the transgressions of...
Black Men, Invisibility and Crime: Towards a Critical Race Theory of Desistance
1st Edition
By Martin Glynn
August 25, 2015
Past studies have suggested that offenders desist from crime due to a range of factors, such as familial pressures, faith based interventions or financial incentives. To date, little has been written about the relationship between desistance and racialisation. This book seeks to bring much needed ...
Desistance Transitions and the Impact of Probation
1st Edition
By Sam King
June 08, 2015
Moving away from criminal behaviour can be fraught with difficulties. Often it can involve leaving behind old habits, customs, and even friends, while at the same time adopting a new way of life. How do individuals go about making a decision to give up crime? How do they plan to sustain this ...
Cultures of Desistance: Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Ethnic Minorities
1st Edition
By Adam Calverley
March 27, 2014
In contrast to the widespread focus on ethnicity in relation to engagement in offending, the question of whether or not processes associated with desistance – that is the cessation and curtailment of offending behaviour – vary by ethnicity has received less attention. This is despite known ethnic ...
Offender Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Communities: Enabling Change the TC way
1st Edition
By Alisa Stevens
March 07, 2014
Offender rehabilitation has become increasingly and almost exclusively associated with structured cognitive-behavioural programmes. For fifty years, however, a small number of English prisons have promoted an alternative method of rehabilitation: the democratic therapeutic community (TC). These ...
Criminal Behaviour in Context: Space, Place and Desistance from Crime
1st Edition
By Nick Flynn
May 16, 2012
This book examines the extent to which criminal desistance – 'the change process involved in the ending of criminal behaviour' – is affected by personal and social circumstances which are place specific. Grounded in criminological spatial analysis, as well as more general ...
The Dynamics of Desistance: Charting Pathways Through Change
1st Edition
By Deirdre Healy
March 19, 2012
It is well-established that the majority of youth offenders cease to commit crime in early adulthood, but the mechanisms behind the shift from a criminal to a conventional lifestyle are not fully understood. The Dynamics of Desistance aims to contribute to this nascent area of inquiry by providing ...