Desistance scholars maintain that innovative and sustainable mechanisms are needed to support the enhancement of human development. Failure to desist is often attributed to limited personal agency and structural disadvantages such as a lack of education attainment and meaningful employment. Therefore, it is argued that criminal justice responses should break down educational and employment barriers in the desistance process, if we are to help remove hurdles to both social cohesion and social integration. To provide additional insights into this phenomenon, this article presents an autobiographical, reflective and experiential account of these challenges in the life of a desister from multiple perspectives. The narrative reveals that the change process extends beyond the attainment of education and meaningful employment, and describes the challenges faced by both work colleagues and the desister. These accounts are accompanied by a reflective academic commentary that situates these personal work experiences within the wider desistance literature, helping to add a critical appraisal of existing knowledge as viewed through the lens of one person’s desistance process over a 10-year period through education and into employment.

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“从灾难到大师”：探索爱尔兰超越抵抗的旅程

Desistance 学者认为，需要创新和可持续的机制来支持促进人类发展。未能停止通常归因于有限的个人能动性和结构性劣势，例如缺乏教育程度和有意义的就业。因此，有人认为，如果我们要帮助消除社会凝聚力和社会融合的障碍，刑事司法应对措施应该打破停止过程中的教育和就业障碍。为了提供对这种现象的更多见解，本文从多个角度对一个desister 生活中的这些挑战进行了自传、反思和体验式的描述。叙述表明，变革过程不仅限于获得教育和有意义的就业，并描述了同事和desister面临的挑战。这些叙述伴随着反思性的学术评论，将这些个人工作经历置于更广泛的停止文学中，有助于增加对现有知识的批判性评价，从一个人在 10 年期间通过教育和进入停止过程的角度来看就业。