RT Article
T1 Desistance in Context: Understanding the Effects of Subculture on the Desistance Process During Reintegration
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 61
IS 3
SP 812
OP 831
A1 Bell, Shane
A2 Butler, Michelle
A2 Lawther, Cheryl
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1760585505
AB Despite a growth in desistance research, our understanding of how local external factors may affect the desistance process as people transition from prison to society remains limited. Drawing on qualitative data from two neighbourhoods in Northern Ireland, it is argued that subcultural factors in neighbourhoods can play a key role in influencing desistance during reintegration by shaping the opportunities that individuals have to access, use and sell drugs, their experiences of social integration/exclusion and processes of surveillance and collective efficacy. It is argued that there is a need to better incorporate the effects of local external factors, including subcultural norms and values, into existing desistance theories if we are to fully understand how neighbourhood context can affect desistance during reintegration.
K1 Desistance
K1 Subcultures
K1 Reintegration
K1 Neighbourhoods
K1 Imprisonment
DO 10.1093/bjc/azaa097