“Desistance Habitus” 🤔
A metric that’s missing when we talk about this stuff…your ability to connect, gain legitimacy and trust as a peer worker, is often a reflection of your ability to be able to do that same stuff in a street/prison setting!
Good to see from Andi Brierley and David Best 👊🏼
journals.sagepub.com
Desistance habitus: Strategically Using experience in practice - Andi Brierley, David Best, 2025
This article introduces the forward-thinking concept of desistance habitus. The analysis and approach are situated within an auto-ethnographical embodied inside...
