The Dynamics of Desistance : Charting Pathways Through Change

ISBN-13: 9780415628051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012

Deirdre Healy

Opis

Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis, this book explores the shifts the occur in desisters' mind and lives as they make the often turbulent transition to a crime-free life.

Spis treści

1. Desistance and Reintegration  2. Issues and Challenges  3. Person and Place  4. Thinking, Attitudes and Social Circumstances  5. Multiple Roads to Desistance  6. Into the Crucible  7. A Catalyst for Change?  8. Looking Forward  9. Betwixt and Between

O autorze

Deirdre Healy is an IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Criminology, University College Dublin. She is currently conducting the Crime, Desistance and Reintegration Study which will provide a detailed account of pathways to (and from) desistance, and aims to identify the psychological and social processes involved in these transitions.