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Catherine began her DPhil in 2003 at Christ Church College under the supervision of Professor Andrew Ashworth and Dr Ros Burnett. Her thesis seeks to explore the resettlement process for a sample of discretionary lifers released between 1992 and 1997. Integrating theories of desistance and rehabilitation, it examines the process of resettlement from the perspective of discretionary life-sentenced offenders and their current supervising officers. The broad aim is to investigate ‘life after life imprisonment’ and distinguish factors associated with successful resettlement and those which are relevant to recall and reoffending.