Rethinking What Works with Offenders: Probation, Social Context and Desistance from Crime (International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation)

Stephen Farrall is Professor of Criminology at the University of Derby, having previously been Professor of Criminology at the University of Sheffield (2010–2018). As well as his research on desistance from crime, he is well known for his work on the fear of crime and his studies on the long term impacts of Thatcherite social and economic policies on crime.

Title: Rethinking What Works with Offenders: Probation, Social Context and Desistance from Crime (International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation)

Author: Farrall, Stephen

ISBN: 9780367698966

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Publication Date: 2022-04-28

Number of Pages: 334

Weight: 0.6492 kg

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""""""""This new edition of """"""""Rethinking what works with offenders"""""""" is an opportunity to take stock of the exceptional contribution of this flagship book to the study of desistance.""""""""

Isabelle F.-Dufour, Laval University, Canada

""""""""Some books are a turning point in your research interests and Rethinking What Works with Offenders encouraged me to devote more time to reading the desistance literature and to undertaking research on desistance that we were able to carry out in the next decade.""""""""

José Cid, University of Barcelona, Spain,

""""""""…it is the skillful weaving of the agentic and structural/rule-driven dimensions involved in the probation-probationer dyad that stands as one of the lasting legacies of the book.""""""""

Mark Halsey, Flinders University, Melbourne, Australia.