ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thought on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book reveals the role of a co-offending peer group in shaping and influencing offending and desistance. In taking social relations as a central unit of analysis, rather than solely the individual agent and/or social structure, the book explores the relative contributions of individual actions, social relations and social systems to the process of desistance. It provides a summation of the analysis examines the dynamics of desistance through the lens of a co-offending peer group and the role of social relations in accounting for desistance over time to elaborate how a relational perspective can generate new insights into the dynamics of offending and desistance. The book concludes with a discussion of the implications for policy, practice and research.
