This study observes the resettlement journeys of 150 prison-leavers, from one local category-B prison, over the course of 18-months.
Through an unprecedented, long-term and large-scale ethnographic study of prison resettlement, this research investigates how dynamic resettlement journeys unfolded over 18-months, to make valuable insights into the mechanisms that contribute to the desistence vs persistence of criminal activity.

Adopting an empirical approach of closeness and immersion, producing thick qualitative description and providing rich, personal accounts capturing how and why behavioral change takes place in the everyday this study presents a micro-scale study of resettlement, and contributes to ongoing theoretical debates about behavioral change more broadly .

They All Come Out: Mapping the Desistence Journeys of 150 Prison-Leavers over 18 Months (PID087)

Speakers

Helen Kosc DPhil