Moving on From Crime and Substance Use : : Transforming Identities / / ed. by Anne Robinson, Paula Hamilton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Best, David,; Burrows, Jacky,; Calverley, Adam,; Goodwin, Sarah,; Hamilton, Paula,; Irving, James,; Robinson, Anne,; Sloan, Jennifer,
• HerausgeberIn: Hamilton, Paula,; Robinson, Anne,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 3 Black and White

Desistance is one of the big news stories of the criminological world. Research suggests that, 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 or transforming identity might be affected by gender, age or ethnicity. This book focuses on diversity and 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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Notes on editors and contributors -- Introduction -- Extending the ‘desistance and recovery debates’: thoughts on identity -- Emotions and identity transformation -- Men, prison and aspirational masculinities -- Lived desistance: understanding how women experience giving up offending -- Growing out of crime? Problems, pitfalls and possibilities -- Different pathways for different journeys: ethnicity, identity transition and desistance -- Fear and loathing in the community: sexual offenders and desistance in a climate of risk and ‘extreme othering’ -- Social identity, social networks and social capital in desistance and recovery -- Alcoholics Anonymous: sustaining behavioural change -- Endnotes and further routes for enquiry -- Index