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Global perspectives on desistance : reviewing what we know and looking to the future / edited by Joanna Shapland, Stephen Farrall and Anthony Bottoms.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016Description: 304 s. : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138850996
  • 1138850993
  • 9781138851009
  • 1138851000
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.36 23
Contents:
Introduction / Joanna Shapland, Stephen Farrall and Anthony Bottoms -- Section I: Agency, structure and desistance from crime -- 1. Mechanisms underlying the desistance process: Reflections on A theory of cognitive transformation / Peggy C. Giordano -- 2. Human agency, criminal careers and desistance / Christoffer Carlsson -- 3. "Ive always tried but I hadnt got the willpower": Understanding pathways to desistance in the Republic of Ireland / Deirdre Healy -- 4. Structural context and pathways to desistance / José Cid and Joel Marti -- Section II: Life phases and desistance -- 5. Key behavioral aspects of desistance from conduct problems and delinquency / Rolf Loeber, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, and Lia Ahonen -- 6. Learning to desist in early adulthood: the Sheffield Desistance Study / Anthony Bottoms and Joanna Shapland -- 7. Issues to consider in future work on desistance from adolescence to early adulthood: Observations from the Pathways to Desistance study / Edward P. Mulvey and Carol A. Schubert -- 8. How important are life-course transitions in explaining desistance? Examining the extent to which marriage, divorce and parenthood account for the age-crime relationship in former juvenile delinquents / Arjan Blokland and Niek de Schipper -- 9. Timing of change: Are life course transitions causes or consequences of desistance? / Torbjørn Skardhamar and Jukka Savolainen -- Section III: Criminal justice and state interventions -- 10. Understanding desistance in an assisted context: Key findings from tracking progress on probation / Stephen Farrall -- 11. In search of desistance: Notes from an Australian study / Mark Halsey -- 12. The increasing stickiness of public labels / Chris Uggen and Lindsay Blahnik -- 13. Understanding and identifying desistance: an example exploring the utility of sealing criminal records / Megan C. Kurlychek, Shaun D. Bushway and Megan Denver -- 14. The fuel in the tank or the hole in the boat? Can sanctions support desistance? / Fergus McNeill -- Diversity or congruence? Sketching the future: an afterword / Joanna Shapland, Stephen Farrall and Anthony Bottoms -- Index
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Joanna Shapland, Stephen Farrall and Anthony Bottoms -- Section I: Agency, structure and desistance from crime -- 1. Mechanisms underlying the desistance process: Reflections on A theory of cognitive transformation / Peggy C. Giordano -- 2. Human agency, criminal careers and desistance / Christoffer Carlsson -- 3. "Ive always tried but I hadnt got the willpower": Understanding pathways to desistance in the Republic of Ireland / Deirdre Healy -- 4. Structural context and pathways to desistance / José Cid and Joel Marti -- Section II: Life phases and desistance -- 5. Key behavioral aspects of desistance from conduct problems and delinquency / Rolf Loeber, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, and Lia Ahonen -- 6. Learning to desist in early adulthood: the Sheffield Desistance Study / Anthony Bottoms and Joanna Shapland -- 7. Issues to consider in future work on desistance from adolescence to early adulthood: Observations from the Pathways to Desistance study / Edward P. Mulvey and Carol A. Schubert -- 8. How important are life-course transitions in explaining desistance? Examining the extent to which marriage, divorce and parenthood account for the age-crime relationship in former juvenile delinquents / Arjan Blokland and Niek de Schipper -- 9. Timing of change: Are life course transitions causes or consequences of desistance? / Torbjørn Skardhamar and Jukka Savolainen -- Section III: Criminal justice and state interventions -- 10. Understanding desistance in an assisted context: Key findings from tracking progress on probation / Stephen Farrall -- 11. In search of desistance: Notes from an Australian study / Mark Halsey -- 12. The increasing stickiness of public labels / Chris Uggen and Lindsay Blahnik -- 13. Understanding and identifying desistance: an example exploring the utility of sealing criminal records / Megan C. Kurlychek, Shaun D. Bushway and Megan Denver -- 14. The fuel in the tank or the hole in the boat? Can sanctions support desistance? / Fergus McNeill -- Diversity or congruence? Sketching the future: an afterword / Joanna Shapland, Stephen Farrall and Anthony Bottoms -- Index