...Rebecca Oswald Purpose This paper aims to explore how environmental employment can promote desistance among criminalised children. Research demonstrates that being immersed in and interacting with the natural environment has a positive impact upon well-being and behaviour, including reduced...

... impact on desistance for justice involved children. Research limitations/implications Further research needs to be undertaken to extrapolate the key characteristics of effective experiential peer support. This includes discussion on whether recruitment of wounded healers into professional youth...

... 2022 17 05 2022 14 06 2022 15 06 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only On road Youth work Frontline Faith-based support Desistance Young people Practitioners Day (2020) states “Criminology neglects...

...Una Mairead Barr Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of assisted desistance from the perspective of women involved in the criminal justice system. It focusses on two community projects set up in the aftermath of the 2007 Corston Report, Northshire Women’s Centres (WCs...

...Shona Robinson-Edwards; Craig Pinkney Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the experiences of Ibrahim, an ex-offender who has embraced Islam. Ibrahim professes Islam to be the influential element to his desistance process. This study explores Ibrahim’s journey, emphasising...

...Martin Glynn Purpose – Desistance is increasingly conceptualised as a theoretical construct which is used to explain how offenders orient themselves away from committing crimes. Previous studies suggest that successful desistance occurs due to one or a number of factors. These factors include...

...Graham Smyth and Gareth Jones; Rachel N. Horan Purpose – The purpose of this position paper is to assess the contribution of restorative justice to the desistance paradigm with a particular focus upon the psychology of these approaches. Design/methodology/approach – Risk, need...

... restorative justice practice and informal community relationships. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Regulation Victims Community Desistance Restorative justice Interdependency The adoption of restorative justice in Britain has expanded greatly over the last decade, both...

...Sam King Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the perceptions of work as a means of desisting from crime among a group of male probationers. Design/methodology/approach Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with male probationers to ascertain their views on desistance from crime...

...Vicki Helyar‐Cardwell Purpose This paper's aim is to explore the available evidence on whether becoming a young father can enhance desistance. Design/methodology/approach Recent literature on young fathers in the justice system was reviewed, alongside the major desistance theories...

...Stephen Farrall The ‘age‐crime curve’, which shows that most of those who offend cease to do so, is one of the few certainties in criminology, yet desistance from offending has been relatively neglected as a subject of research. This article considers why desistance ought to feature as a central...

... : desistance attempts Abstract Much attention has focused on the motivation for robbery and robbery in different contexts, but an understanding of young robbery careers in an urban setting, and the pathways connected to it, have remained absent from the literature. In this paper, I give four case studies...