Giving up and giving back : desistance, generativity and social work with offenders

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Assisted desistance and experiences of probation supervision (2013, background): “This distinction between these two ‘types’ of desistance is frequently made within the literature (for example: Gadd, 2006; Maguire and Raynor, 2006; McNeill and Maruna, 2008; Maruna et al., 2004; Maruna and Toch, 2005).”
Recovery and desistance: what the emerging recovery movement in the alcohol and drug area can learn from models of desistance from offending (2017, unknown): “Any interventions therefore need to provide opportunities to build social capital for communities and offenders (Farrall 2002; McNeill & Maruna 2007; McNeill & Whyte 2007).”
Changing lives? Desistance research and offender management (2010, background): “Psychologists refer to this as ‘generativity’; it takes little imagination to see the generative potential that resides in community penalties and indeed generativity may provide one hypothesis about why reparative community penalties sometimes outperform rehabilitative ones in terms of reducing reo”