ABSTRACT
This chapter concludes the study and provides an overview of key findings. Furthermore, I discuss overarching contextual factors that operated in the processes of desistance for both English and Israeli participants and reflect on what can be learned about the dynamics of desistance more globally. I propose a contextual framework which ties the impact of cultures and structures to individual-level experience of desistance and with which to understand variances and similarities across societies. I begin by sketching the mainstream criminological discourse around desistance and reiterating the main objectives of this study. I then offer a key conclusion on the role of cultures and social structures in processes of desistance and outline this study’s contribution to knowledge. I conclude that desistance processes are shaped by the cultural and social contexts which envelop them, such that external and internal mechanisms in these processes are ‘oriented’ in particular ways, in accordance with five contextual factors. I then outline these contextual factors and offer a contextual framework for desistance research. Finally, I discuss the limitations of this study.
