E-Books →Rethinking What Works with Offenders Probation, Social Context and Desistance from Crime

Stephen Farrall, "Rethinking What Works with Offenders: Probation, Social Context and Desistance from Crime "
English | ISBN: 036769896X | 2021 | 310 pages | PDF | 5 MB
When it was published twenty years ago, Rethinking What Works with Offenders made a major contribution to criminological knowledge on why people stopped offending, and the impact the probation service had on the desistance process. Unlike other studies that had relied on official conviction data, it was the first to make use of self-reported data, including interviews with men and women on probation, and their supervising Probation Officers. It reconceptualised probation outcomes in terms of degrees of success rather than as 'successful' or 'unsuccessful' and offered important policy implications of these conclusions.