Desistance, Resistance, and Normalcy

This book explores how normalcy looks from desisters' point of view, thereby shedding light on the gendered, classed, and age-graded harms of the normal life desisters (are told to) aspire to as well as the forms of resistance involved in approaching it.

Tea Fredriksson is senior lecturer at Stockholm University's Department of Criminology, studies constructions of belonging and otherness. Focusing on prisons and desistance, she uses intersectional and hauntological frameworks in explorations of spaces and processes of punishment. Robin Gålnander is associate senior lecturer at Stockholm University's Department of Criminology. His primary research focus involves desistance from crime using feminist theories and methodologies, and he has conducted a longitudinal, qualitative research project on women's desistance from crime since 2015.

1. Introduction to life in desistance, 2. Death in desistance, 3. Removing (hete)rose-coloured glasses, 4. Social life, social death, 5. Paying for the past, 6. Final reflections