Strengths-Based Approaches to Crime and Substance Use

David Best is Professor of Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University and an Honorary Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at The Australian National University. He leads research into pathways to recovery and desistance in community and prisons settings. He is the author of five books and almost 200 peer-reviewed papers generally in the areas of recovery and rehabilitation, and he is the lead on a number of international research projects in this area. Charlotte Colman is a professor in Criminology at the Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law at Ghent University. She has been involved in several international, EU and national research projects in the area of drug policy, recovery and desistance, alternatives to punishment or conviction, drug-related crime and drug supply markets.

Foreword (Shadd Maruna)

Part 1

1 Desistance and recovery: Developing an agenda for shared learning (Charlotte Colman and David Best)

2 The relationship between drugs and crime and its implications for recovery and desistance (Paul Turnbull)

3 The history, evidence and trajectory of substance use disorder recovery (Robert Ashford and Austin Brown)

4 The long-term impacts of probation supervision (Stephen Farrall)

5 How do mechanisms for behaviour change in addiction recovery apply to desistance from offending? Learning lessons from the REC-PATH programme of work (David Best, Charlotte, Colman, Wouter Vanderplasschen, Freya Vander Laenen, Jamie Irving, Michael Edwards, Rebecca Hamer, Thomas Martinelli)

Part 2

6 Rethinking agency, strengths and change in desistance and recovery: an actor network approach (Michael Savic and Ramez Bathish)

7 Components of identity transition within the desistance process (David Honeywell)

8 Desistance, recovery and the mobilisation of social capital in different cultures (Dana Segev and Stephen Farrall)

Part 3

9 Frustrating desistance: Stigma as a barrier to change (Sarah Anderson)

10 Substance Abuse Treatment Research and Outcomes Related to Recovery for Individuals Involved in the Legal System in the United States: Years of Progress and Future Prospects (Kevin Knight, Wayne E.K. Lehman, Danica K. Knight, & Patrick M. Flynn)

11 Broken and mended: Therapeutic processes, recovery, and desistance in a substance use treatment programme for life-sentenced prisoners (Zetta G. Kougiali, Alessandra Fasulo, Adrian Needs & Darren Van Laar)

12 Restorative and Responsive Approaches to Desistance and Recovery (Gale Burford & George S. Leibowitz)

13 The Role of Recovery in Probation and Prison Programs (David Best and Susan Broderick)

14 The Music of Recovery and Desistance: Prison-Based Musical Tuition as a Strengths-Based Intervention (Jo Cursley & Shadd Maruna)

Part 4

15 An Integrated model of change- Desistance and Recovery (David Best, Rebecca Hamer and Lauren Hall)

16 Promoting relational and strengths-based approaches to illustrating pathways to desistance and recovery. A concluding chapter (David Best & Charlotte Colman)