Desistance From Crime

Youth Offending in Transition: the Influence of Capital on Desistance From Crime

Monica Barry, from the University of Strathclyde, made a contribution to the 2012 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, in the category “Criminological Theory, Research and Education,” under the title “Youth Offending in Transition: the Influence of Capital on Desistance From Crime”. Here is the abstract: This paper presents findings from a longitudinal study of offending and desistance amongst young offenders in Scotland. First interviewed in 2000/1, 20 young people formerly on intensive probation were again interviewed in 2010/11, supplemented by a further 20 interviews with more recent clients of intensive probation. All respondents were currently aged 18-43, both male and female. Drawing on the work of Axel Honneth on social recognition, the aims of the current research were to develop Bourdieu’s concepts of capital in respect of offending and desistance, to trace offending pathways in the transition to adulthood, and to examine the influence of social, economic, cultural and symbolic capital over time. This presentation focuses in particular on the influence of capital as these young people move into adulthood and the factors that impact on the accumulation and expenditure of capital in the process of offending and desistance.[rtbs name=”criminology”]

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• “Youth Offending in Transition: the Influence of Capital on Desistance From Crime”, by Monica Barry (Proceedings)