Understanding Desistance From Crime: Emerging Theoretical Directions in Resettlement and Rehabilitation (Crime and Justice). This item is unavailable.Understanding Desistance From Crime: Emerging Theoretical Directions in Resettlement and Rehabilitation (Crime and Justice)

The growth of interest in why people stop offending and how they are resettled following punishment has been remarkable. This text presents an introduction to research on desistance, and also a report on a follow-up of 200 probationers sentenced to supervision in the late 1990s.

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).