Criminal Careers in Transition: The Social Context of Desistance from Crime

by Ben Hunter, Gilly Sharpe, Adam Calverley, et al.

Continuing previous work exploring why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated in the community, Criminal Careers in Transition: The Social Context of Desistance from Crime follows the completion of a fifth sweep of interviews with members of a cohort of former probationers interviewed since the late-1990s. The research undertaken since the inception of the project in 1996 has focused on developing a long-term evidence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199682151
• ISBN13: 9780199682157
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.5"