British Pakistanis and Desistance - Poverty, Prison and Identity

Focusing on the lives of first and second generation British Pakistani young adult men and those approaching middle age, who offend or have offended, and the experiences of their fathers bringing them up in a de-industrialised city, this book examines the influence of social relations on their moves toward and away from crime.

List of contents

1. Introduction: British Pakistanis and desistance 2. Overcoming challenges conducting ethnographic research with young British Pakistani Muslim Offenders 3. A political economy of desistance 4. The Boys: Islamic identity, prison and desistence 5. The drug dealers: entrepreneurial criminality 6. The ex-rioters: long-term consequences of early imprisonment 7. Fathers and sons: intergenerational effects of deindustrialisation in Bradford 8. Understanding factors contributing to heroin use among British Pakistanis 9. Discussion and conclusion

About the author

Mohammed Qasim is a visiting fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics, UK.
Colin Webster is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Mohammed Qasim, Mohammed Webster Qasim, Webster Colin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9780367677671
• ISBN: 978-0-367-67767-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Pakistan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Poverty & unemployment, Sociology: family & relationships, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social discrimination & inequality, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology: family and relationships, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Black & Asian Studies, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Offenders, Causes and prevention of crime, Poverty and precarity, Relating to British South Asian people, Social discrimination and social justice