International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation

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1. Offender Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Communities

   Enabling Change the TC way

   By Alisa Stevens

   Series: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation

   Offender rehabilitation has become increasingly and almost exclusively associated with structured cognitive-behavioural programmes. For fifty years, however, a small number of English prisons have promoted an alternative method of rehabilitation: the democratic therapeutic community (TC). These...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. Cultures of Desistance

   Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Ethnic Minorities

   By Adam Calverley

   Series: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation

   In contrast to the widespread focus on ethnicity in relation to engagement in offending, the question of whether or not processes associated with desistance – that is the cessation and curtailment of offending behaviour – vary by ethnicity has received less attention. This is despite known ethnic...

   Published August 27th 2012 by Routledge
3. Criminal Behaviour in Context

   Space, Place and Desistance from Crime

   By Nick Flynn

   Series: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation

   This book examines the extent to which criminal desistance – 'the change process involved in the ending of criminal behaviour' – is affected by personal and social circumstances which are place specific. Grounded in criminological spatial analysis, as well as more general...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Dynamics of Desistance

   Charting Pathways Through Change

   By Deirdre Healy

   Series: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation

   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 not fully understood. The Dynamics of Desistance aims to contribute to this nascent area of inquiry by providing...

   Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge