Christopher Kay

Youth Desistance in Transition

Navigating Change in Late Adolescence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a new and innovative way of thinking about desistance from crime, fusing our understanding of desistance transitions, youth transitions, and the impact of significant policy change on people with convictions in a way which is yet to be seen in the available desistance literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781032915814
• ISBN-10: 1032915811
• Artikelnr.: 74435954

Autorenporträt

Christopher Kay is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Loughborough University. His interests lie in the areas of desistance from crime, youth transitions, and the role of sports-based interventions in facilitating both.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Desistance from crime: A critical overview
3. Developing a framework for understanding desistance in transition
4. Talking transitions: researching change
5. The commitment to desist for youth in transition: individual agency and discursive tools of desistance
6. Social structures in transition: the quest for capital
7. Youth desistance transitions within the context of 'Transforming Rehabilitation'
8. Conclusion