Informed by a comprehensive review of theories and research into desistance (Weaver,
2015. Offending and desistance: The importance of social relations. Oxon: Routledge), this …

NACRO BRIEFING - DRAFT Page 1 i The state of youth justice 2020 An overview of trends
and developments Dr Tim Bateman* * The author has produced the report at the behest of the …

Desistance is generally presented in a positive light, with themes of 'making good'and
generativity recurring in the literature. This article reports on two qualitative studies exploring …

This accessible new book looks at how and why individuals leave terrorist movements, and
considers the lessons and implications that emerge from this process. Focusing on the …

This paper aims to advance the case for a more fully interdisciplinary understanding of
offender rehabilitation, partly as a means of shedding light upon and moving beyond …

In an influential article published in the British Journal of Social Work in 1979, Anthony
Bottoms and Bill McWilliams proposed the adoption of a 'non-treatment paradigm'for …

In Offending and Desistance, Beth Weaver examines the role of a co-offending peer group in
shaping and influencing offending and desistance, focusing on three phases of their criminal …

Although research about how and why people come to stop offending (and stay stopped)
has a relatively long history (see Glueck and Glueck, 1930), what we might term the …

It is well-established that the majority of youth offenders cease to commit crime in early
adulthood, but the mechanisms behind the shift from a criminal to a conventional lifestyle are …

This article presents the initial theoretical underpinnings for a fresh prospective study of
desistance, focused on 20‐year‐old recidivists. It is argued that significant crime‐free gaps …