Cultures of Desistance: Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Ethnic Minorities

CULTURES OF DESISTANCE: REHABILITATION, REINTEGRATION AND ETHNIC MINORITIES. Adam Calverley (2013) Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 230pp. Pbk 26.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0415623483 Adam Calverley's book is a long-due addition to the criminological literature on desistance. In the last two decades, research on desistance has extensively dissected the elements of this process of change, identifying how both structural and personal factors come into play and influence the outcomes of this life-changing process. Despite these wide investigations, the factors associated with ethnicity have been left mostly unexplored, especially in relation to UK based research. Calverley's research represents a breakthrough in this direction and it is remarkably important as it poses the basis for reflection and further research on the cultural factors…