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Overview

Shadd Maruna is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom and works primarily within the social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology and political science. Their research spans several subfields including clinical psychology, general health professions, law, and epidemiology.

Their work addresses topics such as criminal justice and corrections analysis, crime patterns and interventions, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry and sexual offending, homelessness and social issues, law in society and culture, crime, deviance, and social control, as well as HIV, drug use, and sexual risk.

Frequent publication venues for Maruna include:

  • CrimRxiv
  • Criminology
  • Journal of Prisoners on Prisons
  • Annual Review of Criminology
  • Crime and Justice

Some of Maruna's recent papers are:

  • "Where Is This Story Going? A Critical Analysis of the Emerging Field of Narrative Criminology" (2020), published in Annual Review of Criminology
  • "The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of the Prison" (2022), published in Crime and Justice
  • "De la réhabilitation au désistement assisté: transcender le modèle médical1" (2020), published in Criminologie
  • "Redeeming desistance: From individual journeys to a social movement" (2025), published in Criminology
  • "Desistance, Social Justice and Lived Experience" (2022), published in Journal of Prisoners on Prisons

Among frequent co-authors are:

  • Katharina Maier
  • Rosemary Ricciardelli
  • Alison Liebling
  • Lesley McAra
  • Gillian McNaull

Maruna has also contributed to book publications, including work published by Oxford University Press, such as "The Oxford Handbook of Criminology" in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives

    Shadd Maruna

  • What Have We Learned from Five Decades of Neutralization Research

    Shadd Maruna;Heith Copes

  • The `Chicken and Egg' of Subjective and Social Factors in Desistance from Crime

    Thomas P. LeBel;Ros Burnett;Shadd Maruna;Shawn Bushway

  • A fundamental attribution error? Rethinking cognitive distortions †

    Shadd Maruna;Ruth E. Mann

  • Pygmalion in the reintegration process: Desistance from crime through the looking glass

    Shadd Maruna;Thomas P. Lebel;Nick Mitchell;Michelle Naples

  • The anatomy of generativity.

    Dan P. McAdams;Holly M. Hart;Shadd Maruna

  • Reentry as a Rite of Passage

    Shadd Maruna

  • Amputation or Reconstruction? Notes on the Concept of “Knifing Off” and Desistance From Crime

    Shadd Maruna;Kevin Roy

  • The Effects of Imprisonment

    Alison Liebling;Shadd Maruna

  • Rehabilitation: Beyond the Risk Paradigm

    Tony Ward;Shadd Maruna

  • So 'Prison Works', Does It? The Criminal Careers of 130 Men Released from Prison under Home Secretary, Michael Howard

    Ros Burnett;Shadd Maruna

  • Ex-Offender Reintegration: Theory and Practice

    Shadd Maruna

  • Why God Is Often Found Behind Bars: Prison Conversions and the Crisis of Self-Narrative

    Shadd Maruna;Louise Wilson;Kathryn Curran

  • Desistance from crime: a theoretical reformulation

    Shadd Maruna;Stephen Farrall

  • Once a Criminal, Always a Criminal?: ‘Redeemability’ and the Psychology of Punitive Public Attitudes

    Shadd Maruna;Anna King

  • After crime and punishment : pathways to offender reintegration

    Shadd Maruna

  • Welcome Home? Examining the Reentry Court Concept from a Strengths-Based Perspective

    Shadd Maruna

  • How and why people stop offending: discovering desistance

    F. McNeill;S. Farrall;C. Lightowler;S. Maruna

  • The kindness of prisoners: Strengths-based resettlement in theory and in action

    Ros Burnett;Shadd Maruna

  • An Exploration of Protective Factors Supporting Desistance From Sexual Offending

    Michiel de Vries Robbé;Ruth E. Mann;Shadd Maruna;David Thornton

  • Is a conservative just a liberal who has been mugged?: Exploring the origins of punitive views

    Anna King;Shadd Maruna

  • Public opinion and community penalties

    Shadd Maruna;Anna King

  • The Oxford Handbook of Criminology

    Alison Liebling;Shadd Maruna;Lesley McAra

  • Desistance from Crime: A Theoretical Reformulation

    Shadd Maruna

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Farrall
Stephen Farrall University of Sheffield
Tony Ward
Tony Ward Victoria University of Wellington
Ruth E. Mann
Ruth E. Mann Government of the United Kingdom
Richard Sparks
Richard Sparks University of Edinburgh
Shawn D. Bushway
Shawn D. Bushway University at Albany, State University of New York
Dan P. McAdams
Dan P. McAdams Northwestern University
Heith Copes
Heith Copes University of Alabama at Birmingham
David Thornton
David Thornton Haukeland University Hospital
David L. Blustein
David L. Blustein Boston College
Myrna L. Friedlander
Myrna L. Friedlander University at Albany, State University of New York

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