This article offers a critical review of the empirical research literature on the 'secondary'or
'soft'contributions that arts‐based programmes may make to the process of desistance from …

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 …

Despite the ubiquity of theatre projects in prisons there has been little (published) discussion
of the application of theatre to the theories of criminology or rehabilitation of offenders, and …

This book aims to make the case for and provide some of the resources necessary to
reimagine rehabilitation for twenty-first-century criminal justice. Outlining an approach to …

In the last 20 years, the recovery movement in alcohol and other drugs has emerged as a
major influence on alcohol and drug policy and practice in the UK, US and Australia. In …

Moving away from criminal behaviour can be fraught with difficulties. Often it can involve
leaving behind old habits, customs, and even friends, while at the same time adopting a new …

Corrections officials faced with rising populations and shrinking budgets have increasingly
welcomed" faith-based" providers offering services at no cost to help meet the needs of …

This article investigates the role of the arts in enabling prisoners to engage with learning and
improve their literacy, and the impact this has on their rehabilitation and desistance from …

Youth justice in England and Wales has followed a risk-orientated model for almost two
decades, requiring interventions with young people to mitigate assessed risk factors for …

Although the negative consequences of rising incarceration rates have been well-
established, criminological research has largely neglected to document psychological …