1st Edition
Women, Trauma, and Journeys towards Desistance Navigating the Labyrinth
1. Navigating the Labyrinth: Women, trauma, and journeys towards desistance
2. Trauma, offending, and desistance
3. Fifty-seven women
4. Navigating relationships
5. Navigating identity restoration: Shame, stigma, and selfhood in women’s desistance
6. Navigating responsibility: Agency, autonomy, and self-efficacy in desistance
7. Navigating Recovery: A trauma recovery approach to supporting women’s desistance
8. Women’s desistance from crime: A trauma-informed framework for practice
Biography
Madeline Petrillo is a senior lecturer in the School of Law and Criminology at the University of Greenwich. Madeline’s teaching specialisms include desistance and rehabilitation, constructions of deviance, women’s experiences of the justice system, pathways to offending, and community justice. Madeline obtained her PhD from the University of Portsmouth. Madeline also holds professional qualifications: a BA(Hons)/Dip. Probation Studies from the University of Hertfordshire and a PG Cert in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of East London. Madeline’s research focuses on the experiences of women in the justice system. Recently, her work has examined the implementation and delivery of trauma-informed practice in prisons and probation. Prior to entering academia, Madeline worked as a Probation Officer for eleven years in London and Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. She also spent two years working as a Probation Officer in a women’s prison. Madeline was Course Leader for the Professional Qualification in Probation from 2013 to 2020.
