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This article examines the role of assisted desistance from the perspective of women involved in the criminal justice system (CJS). It focuses on two community projects set up in the aftermath of the 2007 Corston Report, Northshire Women’s Centres (WCs) and the Housing for Northshire (HfN) projecti. Through analysis of a year of observation in these settings and 23 narrative interviews with staff and service users, the article notes the differences between risk-focused and desistance- focused justice for women. Neither projects are a panacea; however they offer an insight into desistance-focused practice. The findings would suggest that the projects provide social justice as opposed to criminal justice, particularly because of their flexible...
Maintaining desistance is about struggling. It is about leaving a destructive and unwanted way of li...
The Corston Report (2007) highlighted that female offenders have different vulnerabilities to men; c...
With the numbers of women imprisoned increasing across Western jurisdictions over the last 15 or so ...
While criminological literature, criminal justice practice, and to a lesser extent, state policy hav...
This project intended to explore women offenders’, and staff working with them, perspectives’ of com...
Drawing on narrative interviews with 16 criminalized women and a year of observation at English Wome...
This article critiques the focus on responsibilisation of criminalised women within desistance resea...
Desistance theorizing has concentrated on the male experience resulting in relatively less knowledge...
There is a significant and growing volume of research into the way in which offenders desist from cr...
In 2007 Baroness Corston articulated a vision of creating a ‘distinct, radically different, visibly-...
There is a significant and growing volume of research into the way in which offenders desist from cr...
It is recognised that women who have offended comprise a vulnerable group having commonly experience...
Despite increasing academic focus on intimate relationships as positive influences on desistance, re...
This thesis considers the experiences of female offenders in their efforts to desist from offending....
Desistance theory, which examines how and why people stop offending, has occupied an increasingly ce...
Maintaining desistance is about struggling. It is about leaving a destructive and unwanted way of li...
The Corston Report (2007) highlighted that female offenders have different vulnerabilities to men; c...
With the numbers of women imprisoned increasing across Western jurisdictions over the last 15 or so ...
While criminological literature, criminal justice practice, and to a lesser extent, state policy hav...
This project intended to explore women offenders’, and staff working with them, perspectives’ of com...
Drawing on narrative interviews with 16 criminalized women and a year of observation at English Wome...
This article critiques the focus on responsibilisation of criminalised women within desistance resea...
Desistance theorizing has concentrated on the male experience resulting in relatively less knowledge...
There is a significant and growing volume of research into the way in which offenders desist from cr...
In 2007 Baroness Corston articulated a vision of creating a ‘distinct, radically different, visibly-...
There is a significant and growing volume of research into the way in which offenders desist from cr...
It is recognised that women who have offended comprise a vulnerable group having commonly experience...
Despite increasing academic focus on intimate relationships as positive influences on desistance, re...
This thesis considers the experiences of female offenders in their efforts to desist from offending....
Desistance theory, which examines how and why people stop offending, has occupied an increasingly ce...
Maintaining desistance is about struggling. It is about leaving a destructive and unwanted way of li...
The Corston Report (2007) highlighted that female offenders have different vulnerabilities to men; c...
With the numbers of women imprisoned increasing across Western jurisdictions over the last 15 or so ...
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