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Description of  Criminal Behaviour in Context: Space, Place and Desistance from Crime (International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation)

This book examines the extent to which criminal desistance 'the change process involved in the ending of criminal behaviour' is affected by personal and social circumstances which are place specific. Grounded in criminological spatial analysis, as well as more general social scientific investigations of the role of space and place in contemporary social, economic and cultural life, it examines why large numbers of prisoners in the United States and the United Kingdom appear to be drawn from and after release return to certain urban neighbourhoods. In doing so Read more