RT Article
T1 Morality tales: young women’s narratives on offending, self-worth and desistance
JF Probation journal
VO 66
IS 3
SP 318
OP 334
A1 Larsson, Birgitta
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1735449857
AB This article emerges from a study of female offenders’ participation in police-facilitated restorative justice in one county in England. The qualitative study presented here is based on life history interviews with 12 women and focuses on three morality tales that emerged through narrative analysis: ‘offending as play’, ‘the strong woman’ and ‘work and a normal life’. The women used these tales to protect self-worth and justify ‘bad’ behaviour in order to counter professional responses which they viewed as stigmatising. The paper concludes with implications for practice with girls and women who offend, which may benefit police, probation and social workers.
K1 Female offender narratives
K1 Moral identity
K1 Self-worth
K1 Desistance
K1 Restorative justice
DO 10.1177/0264550519860560