The transitional pathways of young female offenders: towards a non-offending lifestyle

This chapter explores young women’s reasons for starting and stopping offending, notably during the transition to adulthood. It argues that the concept of capital – and how it is accumulated in the transition to adulthood – is crucial in understanding young women’s propensity or otherwise to offend and concludes with an exploration of the value of expenditure of capital in the transition towards a nonoffending lifestyle.