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Offending and Desistance - The importance of social relations (Paperback)
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Offending and Desistance - The importance of social relations (Paperback)
Series: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
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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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