All Outputs (3)

What do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity? (2025)
Journal Article
Farrall, S., Warr, J., Shaw, A., & Sharma, K. (2025). What do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity?. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12606

This paper reviews what is known about ethnic identity and the processes by which people cease offending. Whilst the past 30 years have seen dramatic growths in what is known about desistance, in many jurisdictions there is a paucity of research whic... Read More about What do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity?.

Abstraction, belonging and comfort in the prison classroom (2022)
Journal Article
Little, R., & Warr, J. (2022). Abstraction, belonging and comfort in the prison classroom. Incarceration, 3(3), Article 26326663221142759. https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663221142759

Prison education, at the institutional and policy level, is too often about the use value of qualifications, rather than the exchange value inherent in the experience of learning. This article explores how abstract discussion can be used to resolve t... Read More about Abstraction, belonging and comfort in the prison classroom.

Whitening Black Men: Narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation (2022)
Journal Article
Warr, J. (2023). Whitening Black Men: Narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation. British Journal of Criminology, 63(5), 1091-1107. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac066

'You know what? You can't be a "Black Man"in prison.' Negative impositions of Blackness, grounded in the myths of Black Criminality, shape assessments of risk and rehabilitation within the scriptural economy of the contemporary prison This creates a... Read More about Whitening Black Men: Narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation.