Fearful futures and haunting histories in women's desistance from crime: a longitudinal study of desistance as an uncanny process

Although desistance is increasingly recognized as a series of complex processes by which individuals transform from offenders into nonoffenders, few desistance scholars have studied this process in depth. In recent years, however, some have begun to explore how desistance is a process rife with setb...

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Main Author: Fredriksson, Tea (Author)
Contributors: Gålnander, Robin
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Criminology
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