Mentoring, social capital and desistance: A study of women released from prison

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-50

  Brown, Mark ^a   Ross, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Desistance; Mentoring; Post prison support; Women offenders

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956234709     PISSN: 00048658     EISSN: 18379273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/acri.43.1.31     Document Type: Article

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