Youth Desistance in Transition

Navigating Change in Late Adolescence

Christopher Kay (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

218 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032915814 (ISBN)

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This book offers a new and innovative way of thinking about desistance from crime, fusing our understanding of desistance transitions, youth transitions, and the impact of significant policy change on people with convictions in a way which is yet to be seen in the available desistance literature. It offers a critical account of the ways in which young adults move away from involvement in crime, while also navigating the numerous personal, social, and structural transitions that characterise late adolescence.

By exploring the desistance narratives of young adult men under community supervision in England and Wales during the part privatisation of the probation service, the book demonstrates the immediate impact of significant criminal justice policy change on those on the receiving end of such change. Given the expansion of neoliberal ideas in criminal justice and the ever-changing nature of criminal justice policy across the world, it is vital that we develop a critical understanding of the impact of these changes upon the, often-overlooked, people on the receiving end of them if we are to understand how such changes can be successful. This book provides the first of such discussions, charting the ways in which people with convictions navigate seemingly all-encompassing change to lead a life free from crime.

Youth Desistance in Transition will be of interest to students and scholars of criminology and criminal justice, particularly those focused on understanding desistance pathways. It will also appeal to policymakers and social workers involved with youth justice and rehabilitation.

Christopher Kay is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Loughborough University. His interests lie in the areas of desistance from crime, youth transitions, and the role of sports-based interventions in facilitating both.

1. Introduction, 2. Desistance from crime: A critical overview, 3. Developing a framework for understanding desistance in transition, 4. Talking transitions: researching change, 5. The commitment to desist for youth in transition: individual agency and discursive tools of desistance, 6. Social structures in transition: the quest for capital, 7. Youth desistance transitions within the context of 'Transforming Rehabilitation', 8. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	17.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781032915814 / 9781032915814
Zustand	Neuware