New Perspectives on Desistance: Theoretical and Empirical Developments

✍ Scribed by Emily Luise Hart, Esther F.J.C. van Ginneken (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 303
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Narratives of Punishment and Frustrated Desistance in the Lives of Repeatedly Criminalised Women....Pages 11-35
‘I Want to Be a Dad to Him, I Don’t Just Want to Be Someone He Comes and Sees in Prison’: Fatherhood’s Potential for Desistance....Pages 37-59
The Desistance Process of Offenders Who Misuse Drugs....Pages 61-84
Desistance After Life Imprisonment....Pages 85-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Spatial Autonomy and Desistance in Penal Settings. Case Study: The Barlinnie Special Unit (1973–1994)....Pages 111-137
Altruistic Prison Programmes in America: A Platform for Transformation....Pages 139-162
Supporting Families, Promoting Desistance? Exploring the Impact of Imprisonment on Family Relationships....Pages 163-186
Prison Visits and Desistance: A Human Rights Perspective....Pages 187-209
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Leaving Behind the Deviant Other in Desistance-Persistence Explanations....Pages 213-240
Constrained Agency: The Role of Self-Control in the Process of Desistance....Pages 241-265
Prisoners Post Release: The Need for a ‘Critical Desistance’....Pages 267-288
New Perspectives and the Future of Desistance: An Afterword....Pages 289-294
Back Matter....Pages 295-301

✦ Subjects

Crime and Society;Prison and Punishment;Criminal Justice;Social Theory;Critical Criminology