Young Offenders provides one of the most in-depth studies of young males seeking, if often failing, to find a life beyond crime and punishment. Through rich interview data of young offenders over a ten year period, this book explores the complex personal and situational factors that promote and derail the desistance process.

Youth
crime
prison
repeat offending
desistance
men
complex
interview
punishment

• Front Matter
• Introduction
• Setting the Scene
• Approach to the Field — Data
• On Track
• Recurring Breakdown
• Major Derailment
• Catastrophic Turn
• Points of Unrest
• Points of Light
• Concluding Remarks
• Back Matter

Centre for Crime Policy and Research, Flinders University, Australia
Mark Halsey

Flinders University, Australia
Simone Deegan

Book Title
Young Offenders

Book Subtitle
Crime, Prison and Struggles for Desistance

Authors
Mark Halsey, Simone Deegan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137411228

Hardcover ISBN
978-1-137-41121-1
Published: 04 March 2015

Softcover ISBN
978-1-349-48920-6
Published: 24 March 2016

eBook ISBN
978-1-137-41122-8
Published: 04 March 2015

Series ISSN
2753-0604

Series E-ISSN
2753-0612

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
X, 263

Topics
Crime and Society, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Prison and Punishment, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology, general