New Perspectives on Desistance

1. Introduction
Esther F.J.C. van Ginneken, Emily Luise Hart

Section 1. Desistance Pathways for Specific Offender-Groups

2. Narratives of Punishment and Frustrated Desistance in the Lives of Repeatedly Criminalised Women
Serena Wright

3. ‘I Want to Be a Dad to Him, I Don’t Just Want to Be Someone He Comes and Sees in Prison’: Fatherhood’s Potential for Desistance
Emily Turner

4. The Desistance Process of Offenders Who Misuse Drugs
Charlotte Colman, Freya Vander Laenen

5. Desistance After Life Imprisonment
Marieke Liem

Section 2. Promoting Desistance in a Prison Context

6. Spatial Autonomy and Desistance in Penal Settings. Case Study: The Barlinnie Special Unit (1973–1994)
Jessica Bird

7. Altruistic Prison Programmes in America: A Platform for Transformation
Barbara J. Cooke

8. Supporting Families, Promoting Desistance? Exploring the Impact of Imprisonment on Family Relationships
Cara Jardine

9. Prison Visits and Desistance: A Human Rights Perspective
Marie A. Hutton

Section 3. New Theoretical Perspectives

10. Leaving Behind the Deviant Other in Desistance-Persistence Explanations
Catalina Droppelmann

11. Constrained Agency: The Role of Self-Control in the Process of Desistance
Esther F. J. C. van Ginneken

12. Prisoners Post Release: The Need for a ‘Critical Desistance’
Emily Luise Hart

13. New Perspectives and the Future of Desistance: An Afterword
Esther F. J. C. van Ginneken, Emily Luise Hart

Keywords: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Crime and Society, Prison and Punishment, Criminal Justice, Social Theory, Critical Criminology