Desistance research emphasizes that offenders identify a future self that aids desistance
efforts. However, it is unclear how future selves operate when offending opportunities arise …

This chapter reviews definitions of desistance before examining the light shed by criminal
career research on who desists and when. It moves on to theories and research on these …

A number of nationally driven initiatives have led to significant changes in the framework of
community sentences, with various agencies being required to work in 'joined-up'multi …

A number of methodological techniques and theoretical propositions have been used in the
extant literature on specialization/versatility. These various methodologies and theories …

The current study expands the existing understanding of intermittency in offending by
applying the age-graded theory of informal social control to further conceptualize and …

Understanding cooling-off periods is an important step towards conceptualising life course
events of serial killers, between their murders. Analysing the behaviours of serial killers …

The challenge for criminologists interested in studying change after the criminal career
volume was fairly clear—create models that could capture the obvious heterogeneity that …

An exploration of criminal trajectories, placing them in a developmental context Over the
past several years, notions of developmental trajectories—particularly criminal trajectories …

This study aimed to (a) reliably obtain intermittency periods (ie, time gaps between
incarcerations) using days as the unit of time and (b) investigate the effects of mental health …

Research on prisoner reentry has indicated that the transition to the community can be a
tumultuous process. Despite this growing understanding, research has continued to …