ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role of Evan's extant and new social networks and intimate relationships in supporting desistance over time under the superordinate theme 'Religiosity, reflexivity, relationality and desistance'. This chapter begins at the stage of his release from prison, aged 22, after serving a three and a half year prison sentence. It discusses the role of employment in Evan's narrative of change under the final superordinate theme 'The meanings and outcomes of work'. This chapter discusses Evan's life beyond the fragmentation of the Del, and, in that, his process of desistance. Echoing Jay's narrative of change, this analysis has revealed the centrality of his conversion to Pentecostal Christianity and his internalisation of the Christian faith both to his narrative of change and to every aspect of his life. It illustrates the ways in which desistance is co-produced between individuals-in-relation, foregrounding a conceptualization of a reflexive individual whose ultimate concerns emerge from, are immersed in and shape their relational worlds.
