Full Description
As `offenders' turn their backs on crime, they often change their identities as well as their behaviour, yet we know much less about how reforming identity might be affected by gender, age or ethnicity. This book showcases research from a wide range of authors in the field. It considers the similarities and differences between desisting from crime and recovering from addiction. Taking the desistance and recovery debates in unfamiliar directions, it examines the experiences of change for individuals seeking healthier and more successful futures
Contents
Extending the `desistance and recovery debates' - thoughts on identity ‾ Paula Hamilton;
Emotions and Identity transformation ‾ Paula Hamilton;
Men, prison and aspirational masculinities ‾ Jennifer Sloan;
Lived desistance: understanding how women experience giving up offending ‾ Sarah Goodwin;
Growing out of crime? Problems, pitfalls and possibilities ‾ Anne Robinson;
Different pathways for different journeys: ethnicities, desistance and identities ‾ Adam Calverley;
Fear and loathing in the community ‾ Jacky Burrows;
Social identity, social networks and social capital in desistance and recovery ‾ David Best;
Alcoholics Anonymous: sustaining behavioural change ‾ James Irving;
End-notes and further routes for enquiry ‾ Anne Robinson.
