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...

“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 👊🏼

One of the best parts of my job is being part of this supportive, uplifting community. Team Zine is awesome and I’m so glad our work is out there to share with others.

The rehabilitation industry: Lived experience and performance - Andrew Brierley, Max Dennehy, 2024 We approach this essay through a unique observation of being on both sides of the criminal justice system as prisoners and drugs addicts to transitioning into p...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I lived reading this, it is a great capture of this all too familiar tale. Just substitute CJS and Rehabilitation for Alchol and Drug Treatment provision and the narrative holds true.

Thanks Mary. I’m really pleased it resonates - I think it’s not a million miles away from some of the idea of the ‘penal drift’.

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New Publication: "The Rehabilitation Industry: Lived Experience and Performance" (10min read)

Andi Brierley & I explore our observations of what we describe as a Rehabilitation Industry and reflect on our roles within it

We pose tough questions for all CJS stakeholders—read & join the discussion!

Hi Hannah. Is there any chance you could add me to the list please? (If your not inundated with requests 😬)

Giving Blue-Sky a go.

Follow me for a jumble of posts loosely related to issues around: prison and punishment, resettlement and community, desistance and recovery