Mohammed Qasim is a visiting fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics, UK.Colin Webster is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, UK.

• 1. Introduction: British Pakistanis and desistance 2. Overcoming challenges conducting ethnographic research with young British Pakistani Muslim Offenders 3. A political economy of desistance 4. The Boys: Islamic identity, prison and desistence 5. The drug dealers: entrepreneurial criminality 6. The ex-rioters: long-term consequences of early imprisonment 7. Fathers and sons: intergenerational effects of deindustrialisation in Bradford 8. Understanding factors contributing to heroin use among British Pakistanis 9. Discussion and conclusion

Mohammed Qasim is a visiting fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics, UK.Colin Webster is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, UK.

• 1. Introduction: British Pakistanis and desistance 2. Overcoming challenges conducting ethnographic research with young British Pakistani Muslim Offenders 3. A political economy of desistance 4. The Boys: Islamic identity, prison and desistence 5. The drug dealers: entrepreneurial criminality 6. The ex-rioters: long-term consequences of early imprisonment 7. Fathers and sons: intergenerational effects of deindustrialisation in Bradford 8. Understanding factors contributing to heroin use among British Pakistanis 9. Discussion and conclusion

Mohammed Qasim is a visiting fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics, UK.Colin Webster is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, UK.

• 1. Introduction: British Pakistanis and desistance 2. Overcoming challenges conducting ethnographic research with young British Pakistani Muslim Offenders 3. A political economy of desistance 4. The Boys: Islamic identity, prison and desistence 5. The drug dealers: entrepreneurial criminality 6. The ex-rioters: long-term consequences of early imprisonment 7. Fathers and sons: intergenerational effects of deindustrialisation in Bradford 8. Understanding factors contributing to heroin use among British Pakistanis 9. Discussion and conclusion