Understanding Desistance from Crime

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).

• Preface & AcknowledgementsDramatis PersonaeChapter One: Getting to Grips with DesistanceChapter Two: Life After ProbationChapter Three: The Long-term Impacts of Probation SupervisionIntermezzo: The Impact of ImprisonmentChapter Four: The Existential Aspects of DesistanceChapter Five: The Emotional Trajectories of DesistanceChapter Six: Citizenship Values and DesistanceChapter Seven: Criminal Victimisation and Desistance from CrimeChapter Eight: Understanding Desistance from CrimeMethodological Appendix: Relocating our SampleBibliographyIndex