Beth Weaver

Offending and Desistance (eBook, ePUB)

The importance of social relations

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Beth Weaver examines the role of a co-offending peer group in shaping and influencing offending and desistance and explores the life stories of six Scottish men (in their forties), focusing on three phases of their criminal careers: onset, persistence and desistance. In examining their social relations, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317628590
• Artikelnr.: 43417820

Autorenporträt

Beth Weaver is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Strathclyde. She is actively engaged in a number of research networks, research projects and knowledge exchange activities with specific interests in desistance, user involvement and co-production and the use of through-the-prison-gate social cooperative structures of employment. All of Beth's research has an applied focus on penal reform.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. A critical review of desistance research 3. Critical
realism and relational sociology: a conceptual framework for theorising
desistance 4. The dynamics of co-offending: from formation to fragmentation
5. Work, family and transitional masculinities: Seth's story 6. Fighting,
football and fathering: Harry's story 7. From delinquency to desistance and
back again: Jed's story 8. Being, becoming and belonging: from gangs to
God: Jay's story 9. Reflexivity, relationality, religiosity and
recognition: Evan's story 10. An imprisoned life: Andy's Story 11. The
dynamics of desistance 12. Conclusion.