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Desistance Transitions and the Impact of Probation (Hardcover)
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Desistance Transitions and the Impact of Probation (Hardcover)
Series: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
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Moving away from criminal behaviour can be fraught with
difficulties. Often it can involve leaving behind old habits,
customs, and even friends, while at the same time adopting a new
way of life. How do individuals go about making a decision to give
up crime? How do they plan to sustain this decision? And in what
ways does probation help? This book explores these questions. Based
on in-depth interviews with a group of men under probation
supervision, Sam King investigates the factors associated with
making a decision to desist from crime. The book examines
strategies for desistance, and explores the factors that
individuals consider when they are thinking about how they will
desist. In doing so, the book sheds new light on existing
understandings of desistance from crime and helps to develop our
understandings of the role that individuals play in constructing
their own desistance journeys. This book also highlights the role
of probation in this process, offering a timely and critical review
of the nature of probation under the New Labour government in the
UK between 1997-2010. The findings indicate that we should allow
Probation Officers greater autonomy and discretion within their
roles, and that we should free them from the bureaucracy of risk
assessment and targets. Moreover, the book warns against the
potential fragmentation of community supervision. As such, the book
will be of interest to criminology students, researchers,
academics, policymakers and practitioners, particularly those who
work with ex-offenders in the community.
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