Understanding Desistance from Crime
Why do people stop offending?What are the processes they undergo in stopping?What can be done to help more people who have offended put their pasts behind them?The growth of interest in why people stop offending and how they are resettled following punishment has been remarkable. Once a marginal topic in criminology, it is now a central topic of research and theorising amongst those studying criminal careers. This book is both an introduction to research on desistance, and the report on a follow-up of two hundred probationers sentenced to supervision in the late 1990s. The reader is introduced to some of the wider issues and debates surroundi…
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Weitere Autoren: Calverley, Adam
- ISBN: 978-0-335-21949-0
- EAN: 9780335219490
- Produktnummer: 2632101
- Verlag: Open Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 230 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.6 cm x D2.0 cm 594 g
- Gewicht: 594
Über den Autor
Dr. Stephen Farrall is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Criminology, Education, Sociology and Social Work, Keele University. He previously worked at Centre for Criminological Research, University of Oxford and the Department of Law, University of Sheffield. He is the author of Rethinking What Works With Offenders (2002)and has held grants from the Leverhulme Trust and the ESRC.Adam Calverley is presently a PhD Candiate in the School of Criminology, Education, Sociology and Social Work, Keele University. He has previously been employed at the Universities of Glamorgan and Keele. He is the co-author of Black and Asian Offenders on Probation, Home Office Research Study 277, HMSO (2004).
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