featuring

Hazel Kemshall │Professor of Community and Criminal Justice │

De Montfort University

Kieran McCartan │Professor of Sociology & Criminology │

University of West of England

Joy Doal │Chief Executive Officer │ANAWIM

Recent years have seen an increased focus on desistance from crime.  A key feature of the desistance process is the use of recovery capital - that is the resources required by an individual to desist from criminal behaviour.

This free seminar will explore the range and type of recovery capital, and how practitioners can encourage access to it in order to enable positive change in the lives of those who offend.

The speakers will discuss how recovery capital can aid the desistance process, and Joy will offer practical examples from ANAWIM’s work with women who engage in criminal behaviour.  A number of the examples will also have a wider generic application to a range of people in the criminal justice system.

This seminar will also explore the role that justice capital can play in desistance. Justice capital is understood as the ethos, values, practice and service delivery of those organisations working within the justice system. It has also been seen as critical to desistance and in particular those practices that are culturally relevant and which mitigate structural discrimination, disadvantage and exclusion. 

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