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Understanding the access to and use of digital technology by people in the criminal legal system: empirical findings from Wales [PDF]

Health & Justice
Background There is growing recognition of digital technology's role in supporting desistance and improving the well-being and social inclusion of people in the criminal legal system (CLS).
Gemma Morgan, Charlotte Walker, Faye Taxman   +2 more
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A New Identity: Enhancing Life Skills and Work-Readiness for Those With a Sexual Offending History [PDF]

Sexual Offending
The purpose of this research was to examine the experiences of individuals, with a sexual offending history, who have engaged with a community-based life skills and work-readiness programme.
Rachel Ogden, Emma Tarpey
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Individual factors in intimate partner violence desistance: A descriptive patient study of eight patients

Taiwanese Journal of Psychiatry, 2020
Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) desistance is rare, and the subjective experience of change in IPV relation needs to be clarified. In this study, we intended to study potential factors of IPV desistance from exploring their subjective ...
Yi- Ching Chen, Wen- Yan Hsieh, Pei- Ling Wang, Ding- Lieh Liao   +3 more
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«Alt er jo egeninnsats» – Kvinners vendepunkter bort fra kriminalitet

Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab, 2021
Research has emphasised the importance of turning points in desistance from crime. The current study investigates turning points in women’s desistance. Turning points from offending were explored through life story interviews with 20 female ex-offenders.
Katharina Gjeruldsen, Egil Jensen
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The police as formal agents of change: Assisting desistance in individuals convicted of sexual offences

Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2023
Comprehensive and multi-disciplinary public health approaches are necessary to prevent sexual re-offending. However, criminal justice solutions continue to dominate and the arrangement in England and Wales is no exception.
Sarah Pemberton, Stephanie Kewley, Leona Mydlowski   +2 more
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Changes in Personal Social Networks across Individuals Leaving Their Street Gang: Just What Are Youth Leaving Behind?

Social Sciences, 2021
Despite a small but growing literature on gang disengagement and desistance, little is known about how social networks and changes in networks correspond to self-reported changes in street gang membership over time.
Caterina G. Roman, Meagan Cahill, Lauren R. Mayes   +2 more
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Developmental Pathway Choices of Young People Presenting to a Gender Service with Gender Distress: A Prospective Follow-Up Study

Children, 2023
This prospective case-cohort study examines the developmental pathway choices of 79 young people (13.25–23.75 years old; 33 biological males and 46 biological females) referred to a tertiary care hospital’s Department of Psychological Medicine (December ...
Joseph Elkadi, Catherine Chudleigh, Ann M. Maguire, Geoffrey R. Ambler, Stephen Scher, Kasia Kozlowska   +5 more
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Desistance from crime following substance use treatment: the role of treatment retention, social network and self-control

BMC Psychiatry, 2021
Background Reductions in crime are often reported following substance use treatment. We explore the relationship between desistance from crime, treatment type, treatment retention and positive changes in known risk factors for crime. Methods We used data
Ingeborg Skjærvø, Thomas Clausen, Svetlana Skurtveit, Anne Bukten   +3 more
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Récits de désistance de jeunes radicalisés et impliqués dans des activités de groupes terroristes

Criminologie, 2020
À la suite des attentats qu’ont connus plusieurs pays d’Europe, la déradicalisation et le désengagement sont des concepts qui ont été fortement mobilisés et questionnés afin d’orienter les interventions à mener. Celui de la désistance l’a moins été alors
Fabienne Glowacz
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Four forms of 'offender' rehabilitation: Towards an interdisciplinary perspective [PDF]

, 2012
This paper aims to advance the case for a more fully interdisciplinary understanding of offender rehabilitation, partly as a means of shedding light upon and moving beyond contemporary ‘paradigm conflicts’.
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