Overall, this project will contribute new knowledge on robust targets for global crime prevention and strategies to support desistance through triangulating findings from a range of methods making different assumptions to strengthen causal inference. The goals are to: i) shed new light on how, when, and for whom ‘turning points’ can facilitate desistance from crime, ii) identify the obstacles faced in maintaining long term desistance, who is most at risk of encountering ‘snares’, and when, iii) develop a new method to examine mechanisms with a complex, multifaceted exposure (combining latent classes and counterfactual mediation) and use this method to identify modifiable factors that enable individuals to overcome cumulative disadvantage and establish a crime free lifestyle, iv) identify key targets to guide strategies that support desistance from crime and engage in knowledge mobilisation with stakeholders (including policy makers, charities, secondary school teachers, probation officers, and intervention researchers in the UK, Brazil, and South Africa). Alongside dissemination through publishing papers, conference presentations, public engagement, and policy briefings, I plan to hold a stakeholder summit towards the end of the fellowship to disseminate the findings to the network of key stakeholders and co-produce recommendations for the development of strategies to support desistance from crime.