Desistance, Resistance, and Normalcy

This book explores how normalcy looks from desisters' point of view, thereby shedding light on the gendered, classed, and age-graded harms of the normal life desisters (are told to) aspire to as well as the forms of resistance involved in approaching it.

Sommario

1. Introduction to life in desistance, 2. Death in desistance, 3. Removing (hete)rose-coloured glasses, 4. Social life, social death, 5. Paying for the past, 6. Final reflections

Info autore

Tea Fredriksson is senior lecturer at Stockholm University's Department of Criminology, studies constructions of belonging and otherness. Focusing on prisons and desistance, she uses intersectional and hauntological frameworks in explorations of spaces and processes of punishment.
Robin Gålnander is associate senior lecturer at Stockholm University's Department of Criminology. His primary research focus involves desistance from crime using feminist theories and methodologies, and he has conducted a longitudinal, qualitative research project on women's desistance from crime since 2015.

Riassunto

This book explores how normalcy looks from desisters’ point of view, thereby shedding light on the gendered, classed, and age-graded harms of the normal life desisters (are told to) aspire to as well as the forms of resistance involved in approaching it.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tea Fredriksson, Tea (Stockholm University) Galnander Fredriksson, Robin Gålnander
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 26.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032866741
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3286674-1
• Pagine: 178
• Serie: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto penale, diritto processuale penale, criminologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia sociale, assistenza sociale; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Personal & public health, Social Work, Social issues & processes, Legal aspects of criminology, Gender studies: women, Social Law, Social and ethical issues, Gender studies: women and girls, Medical Sociology, Sentencing & punishment, Sentencing and punishment, Juvenile offenders, Sociology: death and dying, Personal and public health / health education, Sociology: Death & Dying, Criminology: legal aspects, Probation services, Social law and Medical law