This paper offers a unique longitudinal qualitative perspective on a group of women maintaining desisting pathways in two different European countries: Sweden and England. Applying a social and emotional capital framework, with particular attention given to the friend and family connection, the paper aims to unveil how a resource perspective can enable a more nuanced view of the role of overlapping female identities and network management, the paradoxes of trust within these, and experiences of stigmatisation and emotional expenditure in female desistance narratives across time and space. The cross-national perspective brings to light the importance of situating the desistance process in the particular context in which it plays out, making visible how narratives may be structurally mediated by wider social, cultural, penal – and gendered – conditions and processes. These insights may, in turn, contribute to the identification of desistance support that have the potential to make female desistance paths less socially and emotionally costly.

本文提供了一个独特的纵向定性视角，对在两个不同的欧洲国家（瑞典和英国）中维持戒断途径的女性群体进行了研究。应用社会和情感资本框架，特别关注朋友和家人的联系，本文旨在揭示资源视角如何能够更细致地看待重叠的女性身份和网络管理的作用，以及内部信任的悖论。这些，以及跨时间和空间的女性停止叙事中的污名化和情感消耗的经历。跨国视角揭示了将停止过程置于其发生的特定背景中的重要性，使叙事如何在结构上被更广泛的社会、文化、惩罚——和性别——条件和程序。反过来，这些见解可能有助于识别停止支持，这些支持有可能使女性停止路径的社会和情感成本降低。