Sam King

Desistance Transitions and the Impact of Probation

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on in-depth interviews with a group of men under probation supervision, Sam King investigates the factors associated with making a decision to desist from crime. The book examines strategies for desistance, and explores the factors that individuals consider when they are thinking about how they will desist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780415642286
• ISBN-10: 0415642280
• Artikelnr.: 41362043

Autorenporträt

Sam King is at Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Leicester. Previous to this appointement, he taught at the University of Birmingham and the University of Derby. His main research interests are desistance from crime, community supervision of offenders and experiences of community supervision. He has published in several journals, including: Punishment and Society, Criminology and Criminal Justice and Probation Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Reoffending and the response from probation 3.
Persistence, desistance and the transitional phase 4. Agency, narratives
and social contexts 5. Obtaining accounts of probation 6. First steps - the
transition to desistance 7. Strategies for desistance 8. Enabling or
constraining desistance? 9. Active agents and social contexts 10.
Concluding thoughts.