Robin Gålnander
Biographic Data
| ID | 5237764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Gålnander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Gålnander |
| SIGNATURE | GÅLNANDER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2727-4450 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Desistance, Resistance, and Normalcy
This book provides a nuanced, critical analysis of desistance from crime, particularly through the lens of women’s experiences. It develops desistance theory by interrogating the concept of normalcy, highlighting how normative societal expectations cause harms on desistance journeys. Through this lens, the book uncovers tensions between desistance as a journey towards societal (re)integration and the resistance desisters experience when encounter…
Limiting Beliefs and Desistance from Gang Crime
This study explores how incarcerated, gang-affiliated youths in Sweden navigate questions of change, aspiration and desistance. Drawing on interviews with young men and staff at secure youth institutions, the analysis foregrounds how internalized limiting beliefs—rooted in racialization, marginalization and stigma—shape what futures these youths perceive as possible. Staff efforts to instil hope are often constrained by institutional securitizati…
A Fresh Start or a False Dawn? Assessing the Crime-Preventive Effect of Debt Settlements for People With a History of Conviction
People with convictions often face financial challenges, which hinder desistance from crime as they have few legal opportunities to address their financial burdens. In some countries, those severely insolvent can apply for ‘debt settlement’ through Enforcement Authorities. This study explores whether such settlements are crime-preventative for people with conviction histories. Analyzing Swedish administrative data and a sample of 1,621 previously…
Persist to desist: How to maintain desistance from crime in the face of severe setbacks
Focusing on how to deal with relapses when trying to desist from crime, this article utilises findings from a qualitative and prospective interview study to illustrate what it means to desist. Ten women’s desistance journeys have been studied longitudinally since 2015. Over these years, the women have encountered setbacks and relapses, yet somehow persevered on their path towards a different ‘normal’ life, free from crime, condemnation and margin…
The Anxiety of a Lifetime’—Dealing with Debt in Desistance from Crime
Debt problems are ubiquitous among people with convictions, yet debts’ implications for processes of desistance from crime remain underexplored. Existing research has primarily focused on ‘punishment debt’. Building on that, this longitudinal study of women in Sweden takes a holistic approach to debts in desistance. Debts are potentially criminogenic forces restricting agency in desistance. However, becoming debt-free and creditworthy is a potent…
Fearful futures and haunting histories in women's desistance from crime: A longitudinal study of desistance as an uncanny process
Although desistance is increasingly recognized as a series of complex processes by which individuals transform from offenders into nonoffenders, few desistance scholars have studied this process in depth. In recent years, however, some have begun to explore how desistance is a process rife with setbacks and struggles. Through an analysis of repeated in‐depth interviews with ten desisting women, in this study, we have found such struggles to be un…
Shark in the Fish Tank’: Secrets and Stigma in Relational Desistance from Crime
Processes of desistance from crime are intricate and, aside from concrete non-offending, they involve a change in self-perception and an acceptance and recognition of reform by others. A criminalized lifestyle often comes with significant stigma, which together with segregation or exclusion from conventional society can render the procurement of such acceptance and recognition difficult. This article is based on findings from repeated in-depth in…
Desistance From Crime—to What? Exploring Future Aspirations and Their Implications for Processes of Desistance
This article presents findings from a longitudinal interview study following the desistance processes of 10 women. While desistance theory primarily focuses on the processual movement away from crime, this article pays close attention to what desisters strive to desist into. The repeated in-depth interviews reveal a diverse range of future aspirations among desisters, and the analysis unravels gendered, class-, and age-graded aspects of such aspi…
Fearful futures and haunting histories in women's desistance from crime: A longitudinal study of desistance as an uncanny process
Although desistance is increasingly recognized as a series of complex processes by which individuals transform from offenders into nonoffenders, few desistance scholars have studied this process in depth. In recent years, however, some have begun to explore how desistance is a process rife with setbacks and struggles. Through an analysis of repeated in‐depth interviews with ten desisting women, in this study, we have found such struggles to be un…
Shark in the Fish Tank’: Secrets and Stigma in Relational Desistance from Crime
Processes of desistance from crime are intricate and, aside from concrete non-offending, they involve a change in self-perception and an acceptance and recognition of reform by others. A criminalized lifestyle often comes with significant stigma, which together with segregation or exclusion from conventional society can render the procurement of such acceptance and recognition difficult. This article is based on findings from repeated in-depth in…
Desistance From Crime—to What? Exploring Future Aspirations and Their Implications for Processes of Desistance
This article presents findings from a longitudinal interview study following the desistance processes of 10 women. While desistance theory primarily focuses on the processual movement away from crime, this article pays close attention to what desisters strive to desist into. The repeated in-depth interviews reveal a diverse range of future aspirations among desisters, and the analysis unravels gendered, class-, and age-graded aspects of such aspi…
Persist to desist: How to maintain desistance from crime in the face of severe setbacks
Focusing on how to deal with relapses when trying to desist from crime, this article utilises findings from a qualitative and prospective interview study to illustrate what it means to desist. Ten women’s desistance journeys have been studied longitudinally since 2015. Over these years, the women have encountered setbacks and relapses, yet somehow persevered on their path towards a different ‘normal’ life, free from crime, condemnation and margin…
The Anxiety of a Lifetime’—Dealing with Debt in Desistance from Crime
Debt problems are ubiquitous among people with convictions, yet debts’ implications for processes of desistance from crime remain underexplored. Existing research has primarily focused on ‘punishment debt’. Building on that, this longitudinal study of women in Sweden takes a holistic approach to debts in desistance. Debts are potentially criminogenic forces restricting agency in desistance. However, becoming debt-free and creditworthy is a potent…
Desistance From Crime—to What? Exploring Future Aspirations and Their Implications for Processes of Desistance
This article presents findings from a longitudinal interview study following the desistance processes of 10 women. While desistance theory primarily focuses on the processual movement away from crime, this article pays close attention to what desisters strive to desist into. The repeated in-depth interviews reveal a diverse range of future aspirations among desisters, and the analysis unravels gendered, class-, and age-graded aspects of such aspi…
Fearful futures and haunting histories in women's desistance from crime: A longitudinal study of desistance as an uncanny process
Although desistance is increasingly recognized as a series of complex processes by which individuals transform from offenders into nonoffenders, few desistance scholars have studied this process in depth. In recent years, however, some have begun to explore how desistance is a process rife with setbacks and struggles. Through an analysis of repeated in‐depth interviews with ten desisting women, in this study, we have found such struggles to be un…
Shark in the Fish Tank’: Secrets and Stigma in Relational Desistance from Crime
Processes of desistance from crime are intricate and, aside from concrete non-offending, they involve a change in self-perception and an acceptance and recognition of reform by others. A criminalized lifestyle often comes with significant stigma, which together with segregation or exclusion from conventional society can render the procurement of such acceptance and recognition difficult. This article is based on findings from repeated in-depth in…
The Anxiety of a Lifetime’—Dealing with Debt in Desistance from Crime
Debt problems are ubiquitous among people with convictions, yet debts’ implications for processes of desistance from crime remain underexplored. Existing research has primarily focused on ‘punishment debt’. Building on that, this longitudinal study of women in Sweden takes a holistic approach to debts in desistance. Debts are potentially criminogenic forces restricting agency in desistance. However, becoming debt-free and creditworthy is a potent…
Persist to desist: How to maintain desistance from crime in the face of severe setbacks
Focusing on how to deal with relapses when trying to desist from crime, this article utilises findings from a qualitative and prospective interview study to illustrate what it means to desist. Ten women’s desistance journeys have been studied longitudinally since 2015. Over these years, the women have encountered setbacks and relapses, yet somehow persevered on their path towards a different ‘normal’ life, free from crime, condemnation and margin…
Desistance, Resistance, and Normalcy
This book provides a nuanced, critical analysis of desistance from crime, particularly through the lens of women’s experiences. It develops desistance theory by interrogating the concept of normalcy, highlighting how normative societal expectations cause harms on desistance journeys. Through this lens, the book uncovers tensions between desistance as a journey towards societal (re)integration and the resistance desisters experience when encounter…
Limiting Beliefs and Desistance from Gang Crime
This study explores how incarcerated, gang-affiliated youths in Sweden navigate questions of change, aspiration and desistance. Drawing on interviews with young men and staff at secure youth institutions, the analysis foregrounds how internalized limiting beliefs—rooted in racialization, marginalization and stigma—shape what futures these youths perceive as possible. Staff efforts to instil hope are often constrained by institutional securitizati…
A Fresh Start or a False Dawn? Assessing the Crime-Preventive Effect of Debt Settlements for People With a History of Conviction
People with convictions often face financial challenges, which hinder desistance from crime as they have few legal opportunities to address their financial burdens. In some countries, those severely insolvent can apply for ‘debt settlement’ through Enforcement Authorities. This study explores whether such settlements are crime-preventative for people with conviction histories. Analyzing Swedish administrative data and a sample of 1,621 previously…
Crime Patterns and Interventions (8 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Normative (3 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (3 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (2 works)