Prisoners Post Release: The Need for a ‘Critical Desistance’

Hart, Emily Luise

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“…Furthermore, highlight that the language in the Strategy is problematic. For example, the concept of 'productive citizens' (MoJ, 2018: 334) suggests criminalised women are unproductive members of society, reinforcing stigmatised portrayals of women and emphasising individualised solutions to structural problems whilst responsibilising criminalised women, who experience a lack of capital, to undergo individualised change (Hart, 2017b).…”

Section: Domestic Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The study of desistance has expanded to include discussions around the importance of social structure (Farrall et al, 2010;Farrall, 2014;Hart, 2017b) and the experiences of criminalised women (Giordano et al, 2002;Rumgay, 2004;Rodermond et al, 2016;Hart, 2017a;Ostermann, 2018;Stone et al, 2018 amongst others). Nonetheless, discussions surrounding patriarchy and neoliberalism have been largely missing from previous desistance research, including those which focus on women's experiences.…”

Section: Desistancementioning

confidence: 99%

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A qualitative investigation into the impact of domestic abuse on women’s desistance

Barr

Christian

2019

Probation Journal

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While criminological literature, criminal justice practice, and to a lesser extent, state policy have acknowledged a link between women’s criminalisation and gendered violence (MoJ, 2018; Österman, 2018; Prison Reform Trust, 2017; Roberts, 2015), there has been much less acknowledgement of the role of historical and contemporaneous experiences of violence in the desistance scripts of criminalised women. Combining findings from two research projects exploring gender and desistance, this article argues that (i) criminalised women’s experiences of gendered violence are such that any exploration of gender and desistance which does not acknowledge this is incomplete, (ii) coercion and control can inform women’s entry into the criminal justice system, (iii) expressions of agency and resistance in abusive interpersonal relationships can also inform women’s offending, yet (iv) women’s experiences of desistance from crime can mask the harm they face in coercive, controlling, and violent relationships. Thus, the article argues for a reframing of desistance from crime as desistance from harm both theoretically and in practice, and considers what this might entail.

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Section: Domestic Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Desistancementioning

confidence: 99%

A qualitative investigation into the impact of domestic abuse on women’s desistance

Barr

Christian

2019

Probation Journal

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“…The relational and flexible features of female desistance as described by Rumgay (2004) and Rodermond et al (2016) have been found to be helpful in this "assisted desistance" context (Ministry of Justice, 2012). Yet, critical desistance theorists (Hart, 2017) argue that desistance happens in spite of CJS interventions and not because of them. The current research proposes that traditional risk-focussed and offence-focussed criminal justice can be damaging to desistance by neglecting the relational elements and flexible approach needed to support and reinforce desistance.…”

Section: Desistancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The negative effects on mental health, relationships, and employment opportunities were expounded by all women involved in this study who had experienced prison. Hart (2017) persuasively makes the case for interventions concerned with desistance promotion to have at their heart an abolitionist perspective. The narratives of the women in the current study reinforce this argument.…”

Section: Desistancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nonetheless, the provisions of both community projects had limitations. It must also be noted that the WC's in particular followed a largely individualistic, responsibilisation-focussed approach to desistance (see Hart, 2017 for possible, alternative "critical" approaches). Whilst many of the sessions promoted women addressing issues such as cognitive processes and personal relationships, these require agency.…”

Section: Desistance-focussed Approaches To "Justice"mentioning

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Social network use and youth well-being: a study in India

Bharucha¹

2018

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Purpose The youth in present day India is the first generation to grow up within a world of pervasive technology. While several writers applaud these social network sites (SNSs) for transforming the social landscape of India, recent research is beginning to examine the destructive role of these SNSs. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether and to what extent social media contributes to decline in well-being, addictive behavior and other harmful social effects. Design/methodology/approach In the first phase, a structured questionnaire was sent via e-mail to 114 students. The second stage embraced an exploratory qualitative approach with in-depth interviews and reflections. As part of the third stage, the author devoted a lot of time reading the blogs and posts of the youth. Findings The analysis of qualitative data is presented in three major themes: patterns of usage, nature of online friendships and threat to well-being. Some of the respondents did experience “addiction-like” symptoms. It can be deduced that the respondents are not addicted to the medium per se; they are cultivating an addiction to certain activities they carry out online. Practical implications Indian newspapers have recently reported several cases how social media can mislead and corrupt the youth and some of these cases have ended in tragedy. This kind of obsessive behavior is extremely dangerous to the minds which are otherwise actually intelligent and ought to be stopped. Originality/value There is no doubt that the Indian youth is developing a dependence on this technological advance that fuses people all over the world. We are still in the infant stages of understanding these issues in the Indian context. This study adds value to the negligible empirical evidence in India till date.

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Continuing the Journey: Stigma and Women’s Desistance

Sheppard

2024

Life on the Outside

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Prisoners Post Release: The Need for a ‘Critical Desistance’

Cited by 9 publications

References 39 publications

A qualitative investigation into the impact of domestic abuse on women’s desistance

A qualitative investigation into the impact of domestic abuse on women’s desistance

Social network use and youth well-being: a study in India

Continuing the Journey: Stigma and Women’s Desistance

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