All Outputs (3)

Frustrating desistance: Stigma as a barrier to change (2019)
Book Chapter
Anderson, S. (2019). Frustrating desistance: Stigma as a barrier to change. In Strengths-Based Approaches to Crime and Substance Use. Routledge

This chapter explores the role that stigma plays in frustrating desistance from crime, drawing parallels throughout with similar negative dynamics in recovery from substance use. Having introduced the concept of stigma, this chapter shows how concept... Read More about Frustrating desistance: Stigma as a barrier to change.

Desistance and Cognitive Transformations (2018)
Book Chapter
Anderson, S., & McNeill, F. (2019). Desistance and Cognitive Transformations. In D. P. Farrington, L. Kazemian, & A. R. Piquero (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology (599-623). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190201371.013.32

This chapter reviews the state of current knowledge on cognitive transformations in the desistance process. It considers transformations in the content of cognitions: changing pro-criminal attitudes, changing meanings of and emotions surrounding crim... Read More about Desistance and Cognitive Transformations.

Offenders and alleged offenders with mental disorder in non-medical settings (2014)
Book Chapter
Corner, J., Anderson, S., Lankshear, I., Lankshear, A., Senior, J., Shaw, J., Taylor, P. J., Barry, M., d’Orbán, P., Dooley, E., Gudjonsson, G., Gunn, J., Hall, D., & Stanley, S. (2014). Offenders and alleged offenders with mental disorder in non-medical settings. In J. C. Gunn, & P. J. Taylor (Eds.), Forensic Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues (620-657). (2nd edition). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1201/b15462-25

In England and Wales, since the introduction under the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2000 of Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements for the assessment and management of sexual and violent offenders, it has never been more important to understa... Read More about Offenders and alleged offenders with mental disorder in non-medical settings.