Books in the International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation series

This book gives voice to justice-involved Canadian youth and young adults by sharing their views on their journey toward desistance from crime and social and community (re)integration.

Trusting Recovery and Desistance synthesises and presents research on the social influences of recovery and desistance.

This book contributes to our knowledge of desistance in a developing country. Offering an intercultural dialogue with mainstream explanations, Transitions Out of Crime analyses the transition from crime to conformity among a group of Chilean juvenile offenders.

Building on a range of interviews with young adult women who were offenders in their youth, this book analyses their vivid personal accounts of stigma, motherhood, addiction and examines the gendered transition from youth criminality into adulthood.

Grounded in criminological spatial analysis, as well as more general social scientific investigations of the role of space and place in contemporary social, economic and cultural life, this title examines why large numbers of prisoners in the US and the UK appear to be drawn from - and after release return to - certain urban neighbourhoods.

It is well-established that the majority of 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. This book aims to contribute to this area of inquiry by providing an account of the psychosocial processes involved in desistance from crime.

"Bringing together leading figures, and drawing upon case studies from around the world, this book seeks to fill a vacuum in the contemporary literature on desistance by considering processes and practices at a societal level that influence how and why people desist from crime"--