Criminal careers in transition : the social context of desistance from crime / Stephen Farrall, Ben Hunter, Gilly Sharpe, and Adam Calverley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farrall, Stephen, author.

Hunter, Ben (Lecturer in Criminology), author.

Sharpe, Gilly, author.

Calverley, Adam, author.

Series:

Clarendon studies in criminology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Probation--Great Britain--Evaluation.

Probation.

Criminals--Rehabilitation--Great Britain.

Criminals.

Criminals--Rehabilitation.

Recidivism.

Evaluation.

Great Britain.

Recidivism--Great Britain--Prevention.

Change (Psychology).

Physical Description:

xviii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Clarendon Studies in Criminology aims to provide a forum for outstanding empirical and theoretical work in all aspects of criminology and criminal justice, broadly understood. The Editors welcome submissions from established scholars, as well as excellent PhD work. The Series was inaugurated in 1994, with Roger Hood as its first General Editor, following discussions between Oxford University Press and three criminology centres. It is edited under the auspices of these three criminological centres: the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics, and the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford. Each supplies members of the Editorial Board and, in turn, the Series Editor. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I What We Did, How We Did It, and Why We Did It That Way

1 Critically Reviewing What We Know about Why People Stop Offending 3

Nine Desistance Studies 4

Assessment Criteria 5

Can We Produce Desiderata for Studying Desistance? 18

How Does Tracking Progress On/After Probation Compare? 25

Theories of Desistance 27

Summing Up and Looking Ahead 37

2 Integrating Structural and Individual-Level Processes in Criminal Careers Research 39

Introduction 39

Building Integrated Models of Criminal Careers 40

An Integrated Perspective on Structural and Individual-Level Processes in Desistance 43

Linking Structures and Desistance in Empirical Research 48

Theoretically Informing Our Understanding of Desistance 51

Place, Space, and Time 56

Macro-Level Structural Influences 60

Asymmetrical Causation 61

Normal-Smiths and Deviant-Smiths 62

Drifting into Desistance? 64

Role Exit and Professional-Exes 66

Conclusion 68

3 The Mechanics of Studying Desistance from Crime: An Exemplar of a Qualitative Longitudinal Research Project 70

Introduction 70

Qualitative Longitudinal Research 70

Analysing QLR Data 74

QLR and Research into Desistance from Crime 76

Tracking Progress on Probation 77

The Sweep 5 Interviews 85

Conclusion 90

Part II What We Discovered

4 The Offending Trajectories of Sample Members 95

Introduction 95

Classifying Offending Careers and Desistance Trajectories 96

Desisters 97

Persisrers 113

Conclusion 119

5 The Long-Term Impacts of Probation Supervision 121

Introduction 121

The Impact of Probation 122

How Does Probation Work? 124

Limitations to Probation 149

Summarizing the Long-Term Impacts of Probation Supervision 154

Conclusion 157

6 The Spatial Dynamics of Desistance 159

Introduction 159

Researching Criminal Careers and Communities 160

Understanding Geographies of Time and Space 163

Exploring Individual Time-Space Budgets 172

Feelings of Entrapment: The Timespace of Drug Use 180

Drawing Out the Relationships between Desistance and Space 184

7 The Emotional Trajectory of Desistance 187

Introduction 187

The Emotional Trajectories of Desistance 188

The Emotional Trajectories of Desistance: Further Evidence 193

Conclusion 213

8 'I'm done with it all': Is Victimization a Catalyst for Desistance? 218

Introduction 218

Victimization, Offending, and Desistance 221

The Relationship between Victims and Offenders 227

Victimization as a Moment of Inflection in the Desistance Process 231

Case Studies of Victimization 236

Conclusion 245

9 Citizenship Values and Desistance from Crime: Exploring Change over Time 246

Introduction 246

Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Citizenship 246

Operationalizing 'Lived Citizenship' 249

'Lived Citizenship' and Desistance 251

Explaining the Relationship between Desistance and Liberal Citizenship Values 260

Markey's journey to Citizenship 273

Conclusion 275

Part III What It Means

10 Conclusion 279

Summarizing What We Have Learnt 279

'What Helps?' as an Antedote to 'What Works?' 290

Lessons for Research Design 291

The Capabilities Approach 292.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313) and index.

ISBN:

9780199682157

0199682151

OCLC:

889511616