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The process underlying desistance is still a strong subject of debate. This article seeks to introduce several core concepts of Archer's morphogenic approach to study how people desist from crime. At first, it discusses the primary existing theories of desistance. Then, this article demonstrates the usefulness of this approach by presenting empirical evidence drawn from semistructured interviews collected with 29 men who desisted from crime in an eastern province of Canada. The study demonstrates how this alternative approach allows for the consolidation of existing knowledge on desistance. Then implication of these findings for both theory and practice are discussed.

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This article situates Canadian critical criminology within the ethos of neo-liberalism and in relation to early-twenty-first-century scholarship. Toward this end, we attempt to establish what is critical about “critical” criminology. We argue that it extends critique beyond current ontological limits without laying down foundational content that would (re-)stitch new fabric onto the old. We acknowledge that “critical” scholarship is becoming increasingly restrained by an almost all-encompassing neo-liberal ethos. Scholars working under the critical rubric are finding sources of data defensively guarded, and publishing and funding opportunities increasingly difficult to locate. As a result, several iconic critical scholars have migrated away from “criminology.” However, despite a certain malaise and pessimism surrounding critical criminology, we hope that this article (and the accompanying special issue) will inspire new “critical” horizons in criminology.