Beth Weaver

Offending and Desistance (eBook, ePUB)

The importance of social relations

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Offending and Desistance, Beth Weaver examines the role of a co-offending peer group in shaping and influencing offending and desistance, focusing on three phases of their criminal careers: onset, persistence and desistance. While there is consensus across the body of desistance research that social relations have a role to play in variously constraining, enabling and sustaining desistance, no desistance studies have adequately analysed the dynamics or properties of social relations, or their relationship to individuals and social structures. This book aims to reset this balance.

By examining the social relations and life stories of six Scottish men (in their forties), Weaver reveals the central role of friendship groups, intimate relationships and families of formation, employment and religious communities. She shows how, for different individuals, these relations triggered reflexive evaluation of their priorities, behaviours and lifestyles, but with differing results.

Weaver's re-examination of the relationships between structure, agency, identity and reflexivity in the desistance process ultimately illuminates new directions for research, policy and practice. This book is essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of criminology and criminal justice, delinquency, probation and criminal law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317628590
• Artikelnr.: 43417820

Autorenporträt

Beth Weaver is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Strathclyde. She is actively engaged in a number of research networks, research projects and knowledge exchange activities with specific interests in desistance, user involvement and co-production and the use of through-the-prison-gate social cooperative structures of employment. All of Beth's research has an applied focus on penal reform.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. A critical review of desistance research 3. Critical
realism and relational sociology: a conceptual framework for theorising
desistance 4. The dynamics of co-offending: from formation to fragmentation
5. Work, family and transitional masculinities: Seth's story 6. Fighting,
football and fathering: Harry's story 7. From delinquency to desistance and
back again: Jed's story 8. Being, becoming and belonging: from gangs to
God: Jay's story 9. Reflexivity, relationality, religiosity and
recognition: Evan's story 10. An imprisoned life: Andy's Story 11. The
dynamics of desistance 12. Conclusion.