Title: Understanding desistance from crime : emerging theoretical directions in resettlement and rehabilitation /
Authors: Farrall, Stephen.; Calverley, Adam.
Publisher: Open University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Criminals Rehabilitation Great Britain; Recidivism Great Britain Prevention.; Change (Psychology); Réhabilitation Grande-Bretagne.; Récidive Grande-Bretagne Prévention.; Changement (Psychologie)
Contents: Getting to grips with desistance -- Life after probation: offending and the development of social and personal contexts -- The longer term impact of probation supervision -- Intermezzo: The impact of imprisonment -- The existential aspects of desistance -- The emotional trajectories of desistance -- Citizenship values and desistance -- Criminal victimization and desistance from crime: in what ways are they related? -- Understanding desistance from crime: agency, structures and structuration in processes of reform -- Methodological appendix: Relocating our sample