Overview
Highlights desistance pathways for specific offender-groups within a prison context
Explores new theoretical perspectives in the study of desistance
Draws on diverse expert research on specific populations and the relationship between non-penal interventions and desistance
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Desistance Pathways for Specific Offender-Groups
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Promoting Desistance in a Prison Context
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New Theoretical Perspectives
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About this book
This book brings together a collection of emergent research that moves the debate on desistance beyond a general consideration of individual and social structural influences. The authors examine empirical developments which have implications for policy surrounding resettlement and re-offending, but also for punishment practices. Presenting thought-provoking theoretical advances and critiques, the editors challenge and enrich traditional understandings of desistance. A wide range of chapters explore how some criminal justice interventions hinder the desistance process, but also how alternative approaches may be more helpful in promoting and supporting desistance. Thorough and diverse, this book will be of great interest to scholars of criminology and criminal justice, social policy, sociology and psychology, and of special interest to researchers and practitioners working with (ex-)offenders.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Esther F.J.C. van Ginneken is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Perspectives on Desistance
Book Subtitle: Theoretical and Empirical Developments
Editors: Emily Luise Hart, Esther F.J.C. van Ginneken
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95185-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95184-0Published: 29 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95754-5Published: 29 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95185-7Published: 14 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 301
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Crime and Society, Prison and Punishment, Criminal Justice, Social Theory, Critical Criminology