Towards Desistance: Theoretical Underpinnings for an Empirical Study

By A. Bottoms, J. Shapland, A. Costello, D. Holmes, G. Muir. 2004

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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1. F. McNeill
2. A. Stevens
3. Sam King
4. Thomas P. Lebel
5. N. Richardson
6. M. Liem
7. Shadd Maruna
8. E. Weaver

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• A desistance paradigm for offender management (2006, background): “Although Bottoms et al. (2004) have raised some doubts about the value of this distinction on the grounds that it may exaggerate the importance of cognitive changes which need not always accompany desistance, it does seem likely that where offender managers are dealing with (formerly) persistent…”
• Prisoners' families and offender management: Mobilizing social capital (2008, background): “…to occur, and how it might be supported and encouraged by policy and practice has been of considerable recent interest to academic commentators (e.g. Bottoms et al., 2004; Burnett and McNeill, 2005; Burnett and Maruna, 2004; Farrall and Maruna, 2004; McNeill, 2004, 2006; Maguire and Raynor, 2006).”
• ‘I am the person now I was always meant to be’: Identity reconstruction and narrative reframing in therapeutic community prisons (2012, background): “…somewhere in the interfaces between developing personal maturity, changing social bonds … and the individual subjective narrative constructions which offenders build around these key events and changes’ (McNeill, 2006: 47, emphasis added; see also Bottoms et al., 2004; Farrall et al., 2011).”
• Youth transitions: from offending to desistance (2010, background): “But see Bottoms et al. (2004), Harada (1995) and MacDonald and Marsh (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): “The focus on identity from the work of Maruna and Farrall (2004) inter alia provides common ground with theories of addiction recovery, although this has been contested both by Laub and Sampson (2003) and Bottoms et al. (2004).”
• Assisted desistance and experiences of probation supervision (2013, background): “There are debates around the relative merits of studying secondary rather than primary desistance (Bottoms et al., 2004), but there is value in studying the early stages of primary desistance: partly because the mechanisms which underpin primary desistance may be different from those which underpin ”
• Changing lives? Desistance research and offender management (2010, background): “Though not all researchers concur that this kind of reconstruction of identity is a necessary aspect of desistance (see Bottoms et al., 2004; Laub and Sampson, 2003), it is at least more likely to be necessary for those whose offending has been persistent and who have deeply entrenched criminal…”
• The `Chicken and Egg' of Subjective and Social Factors in Desistance from Crime (2008, background): “Indeed, it is commonly argued that, on a micro level, subjective and situational influences occur simultaneously (Le Blanc 2004) and cyclically (Bottoms et al. 2004).”
• The Role of Transformation Narratives in Desistance Among Released Lifers (2014, background): “…largely based on general delinquents who have served relatively short prison sentences or samples that contain only a small number of individuals serving long prison sentences (e.g., Bottoms et al., 2004; Cid & Marti, 2012; Giordano et al., 2002; Laub & Sampson, 2003; Maruna, 2001; Stevens, 2012).”
• The place of the officer-offender relationship in assisting offenders to desist from crime (2005, background): “Though it is not straightforward to define desistance (see Bottoms et al., 2004; Farrall, 2002), it is essentially about the processes of ceasing offending and refraining from offending.”
• Desistance From Crime (2007, background): “…have discussed the complexity of establishing temporal or causal order between cognitive processes, situational circumstances, and desistance from crime (Bottoms et al., 2004; Laub & Sampson, 2001; Maruna, 2001; Maruna, LeBel, Burnett, Bushway, & Kierkus, 2002; Mischkowitz, 1994; Shover, 1983).”
• Reflections on social values, offending and desistance among young adult recidivists (2011, background): “…of small decisions, small behavioural or lifestyle changes and consequent readjustments to one’s self- and group identity, as our study suggests (Bottoms et al., 2004; Bottoms and Shapland, 2011), then we would expect that taking a definite decision to desist would be linked with an increasing…”