Women, Stigma, and Desistance from Crime: Precarious Identities in the Transition to Adulthood

Building on a range of interviews with young adult women who were offenders in their youth, this book analyses their vivid personal accounts of stigma, motherhood, addiction and examines the gendered transition from youth criminality into adulthood.

Gilly Sharpe is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Sheffield, UK.