From a very small base of empirical studies in the 1940s and 1950s, the literature on how
and why people stop offending has grown rapidly in the last two decades (see Laub and …

This paper aims to advance the case for a more fully interdisciplinary understanding of
offender rehabilitation, partly as a means of shedding light upon and moving beyond …

In an influential article published in the British Journal of Social Work in 1979, Anthony
Bottoms and Bill McWilliams proposed the adoption of a 'non-treatment paradigm'for …

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 important and original new book reports on a major investigation of the outcomes of
probation supervision, is concerned with the key question of what works in probation, and …

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 …

For decades, the relationship between the officer and offender (variously labelled as the
'casework relationship', the 'supervisory relationship'or 'one-to-one work') was the main …

Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins was 21 years old when his addiction to heroin threatened to
end his budding musical career, just at a point when he was breaking in with the top jazz …

This report provides a literature review on desistance from crime which explores the
purposes of offender management; understanding and supporting desistance; desistance …

Interventions for reducing reoffending are frequently criticised for not being based upon a
foundation of empirical evidence (see Latessa et al. 2002). As a response, over the past …