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Beth Weaver
Researcher at University of Strathclyde
Publications - 41
Citations - 826
Beth Weaver is an academic researcher from University of Strathclyde. The author has contributed to research in topics: Criminal justice & Prison. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 40 publications receiving 708 citations.
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Lifelines: Desistance, Social Relations, and Reciprocity
Beth Weaver,Fergus McNeill +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the life stories of a friendship group of men in their 40s who offended together in their youth and early adulthood are explored, revealing individual, relational, and structural contributions to the desistance process.
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Offending and Desistance: The importance of social relations
TL;DR: Weaver as mentioned in this paper examines the role of a co-offending peer group in shaping and influencing offending and desistance, focusing on three phases of their criminal careers: onset, persistence, desistance.
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The Relational Context of Desistance: Some Implications and Opportunities for Social Policy
TL;DR: This article foregrounded a re-conceptualization of the desistance process as inescapably relational and explored the extent to which extant policies variously facilitate or hinder processes of change and make relevant social supports.
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Co-Producing Community Justice: The Transformative Potential of Personalisation for Penal Sanctions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the practical application of theories of personalisation and co-production by reviewing proposed and extant strategies for maximising stakeholder involvement in criminal justice social work services.
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Understanding desistance: a critical review of theories of desistance
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive review of theories and research into desistance is presented, and the importance of social relations in desistance and offending is discussed, as well as the role of desistance in social relations.