Global Perspectives on Desistance

Taylor & Francis

Global Perspectives on DesistanceReviewing what we know and looking to the future\nAuthor(s): Joanna Shapland, Stephen Farrall, Anthony Bottoms\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138851009, 978-1138851009\nSynopsis\nIn recent years attention has switched from how adolescents are attracted into crime, to how adults reduce their offending and then stop the process of desistance. There are now around a dozen major longitudinal and in-depth studies around the world which have followed or are following offenders over their life course, charting their offending history and their social and economic circumstances.\n\nThe book is the first to offer a global perspective on desistance and brings together international leading experts in the field from countries including the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Spain, the USA, and Australia to set out what we know about desistance, and to advance our theoretical unde.