About Beth Weaver is a lecturer at the Glasgow School of Social Work, Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked for a number of years as a Criminal Justice Social Worker and latterly as a MAPPA Coordinator. Her publications and primary area of research interest are in desistance and the implications for criminal and community justice policy and practice generally, and for community penalties in particular. Her doctoral research draws on the life stories of a naturally forming group of offenders and ex-offenders, now in their late forties, whose origins had shared beginnings but whose lives have had divergent outcomes. The focus of her research is on achieving a better understanding of the dynamics of desistance and the associated implications for policy and practice. In addition, having worked as a MAPPA Coordinator, she has an interest in the emergence of discourses, policies and practices surrounding public protection. Beth is currently conducting doctoral research which is essentially a desistance study which draws on the life stories / narratives of a naturally forming group of offenders and ex-offenders, now in their late forties, whose origins had shared beginnings but whose lives have had divergent outcomes. It is principally an exploratory study to examine both within and between individual factors that appear to be significant in the process of desistance, or otherwise.
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