Over the past decade, a growing body of literature has emerged under the umbrella of
narrative criminology. We trace the origins of this field to narrative scholarship in the social …

Desistance is generally presented in a positive light, with themes of 'making good'and
generativity recurring in the literature. This article reports on two qualitative studies exploring …

By publishing handbooks, Palgrave Macmillan's objective is to provide overviews of specific
fields of research. Those publications are principally for specialists and students. By and …

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 …

This paper provides a review of the current criminological landscape in relation to positive
criminology and strengths based responses to crime. It does this by drawing on four forms of …

Although research about how and why people come to stop offending (and stay stopped)
has a relatively long history (see Glueck and Glueck, 1930), what we might term the …

This book aims to make the case for and provide some of the resources necessary to
reimagine rehabilitation for twenty-first-century criminal justice. Outlining an approach to …

Desistance research emphasizes that offenders identify a future self that aids desistance
efforts. However, it is unclear how future selves operate when offending opportunities arise …

This book explores the ways in which social relations are profoundly changing modern
society, arguing that, constituting a reality of their own, social relations will ultimately lead to …

Despite significant research interest in Norwegian penality, there remains much to be
learned about how people in Norway experience life during and after punishment. This …