INTRODUCTION FROM THE ISSUE EDITORS
Desistance, Social Justice and Lived Experience
Katharina Maier, Rosemary Ricciardelli and Shadd Maruna ..................1
ARTICLES
Desistance, Anomalies and Rabbit Holes:
A Transformative Experience from Inside Out
Christopher Havens and Marta Cerruti .................................................10
Desistance and Prisoner Re-entry:
A Real-time Perspective
Kris MacPherson ....................................................................................20
Co-producing Desistance Opportunities with Women in Prison:
Refl ections of a Sports Coach Developer
Christopher Kay, Carolynne Mason and Tom Hartley ...........................40
Desistance and Prison Culture:
A Trifurcated Prisoner Classifi cation Theory
Ruth Utnage ............................................................................................65
Twenty Years of Incarceration in the Garden State:
Refl ecting on the Barriers and Facilitators in the Desistance Process
Stephon Whitley with a forward by Nathan W. Link ...............................77
Captor Story and Captive Story
Francis X. Kroncke .................................................................................94
What Can the Legal Profession Do For Us?
Formerly Incarcerated Attorneys and the Practice of Law
as a Strengths-Based Endeavour
James Binnall .......................................................................................110
The Contradictions of Prisoner Life and Rehabilitation:
An Auto-ethnographic Life Sentence Experience
Daniel Micklethwaite ............................................................................132
RESPONSE
On Desistance and Resistance
Justin Piché ..........................................................................................167
PRISONERS’ STRUGGLES
A Call for Memorials, Writing and Artwork
by Imprisoned People and their Loved Ones
Mourning Our Losses ...........................................................................170
COVID-19 Pandemic Struggles of Prisoners’ Families
Joanne Fry ............................................................................................172
BOOK REVIEWS
Available Titles and
Call for Book Reviews
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons ...........................................................176
UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUES – CALLS FOR PAPERS
Homelessness and Incarceration
Erin Dej and Dale Spencer ...................................................................179
Emotions and Carceral Spaces
Jennifer Kilty, Rachel Fayter and Justin Piché ....................................182
COVER ART
“Transition” (front cover)
Steel Door Studios
2022 ......................................................................................................186
“Turbulent Tenacity” (back cover)
Steel Door Studios
2022 ......................................................................................................186