Moving on From Crime and Substance Use : : Transforming Identities /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 3 Black and White
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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

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