In recent years attention has switched from how adolescents are attracted into crime, to how adults reduce their offending and then stop – the process of desi

Youth violence has become a concern as gangs become a popular option for urban children and teenagers and weapons use among young populations becomes more preva

The United States incarcerates nearly one quarter of the world’s prison population with only five percent of its total inhabitants, in addition to a history o

This book examines the role of religion and spirituality in desistance from crime and disengagement from gangs. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with male gang

This book makes a unique contribution to the internationalisation of criminological knowledge about gender and desistance through a qualitative cross-national e