Offending and Desistance : The Importance of Social Relations
Weaver, Beth (2015) Offending and Desistance : The Importance of Social Relations. International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation . Routledge, London. ISBN 9781138799721
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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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Weaver, Beth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1711-1068;-
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Item type: Book ID code: 55201 Dates: DateEvent21 July 2015PublishedSubjects: Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General)
Social Sciences > Social pathology. Social and public welfare > Criminal justice administrationDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 21 Dec 2015 11:28 Last modified: 12 Dec 2024 15:53 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/55201