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Fair enough: long-term prisoners talk about their sentence [PDF]

, 2015
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Schinkel, Marguerite Luci
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Engaging prisoners in education: Reducing risk and recidivism [PDF]

, 2015
Engaging prisoners in education is one of a range of measures that could alleviate security risk in prisons. For prisoners, one of the main challenges with incarceration is monotony, often leading to frustration, raising the risk of injury for staff and ...
Farley, Helen, Pike, Anne
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Juvenile detention and educational engagement: A sociocultural analysis inspired by Vygotskij

Formare
The detention of juvenile offenders poses significant risks to healthy psychosocial development and to a successful transition into adulthood, exposing an already vulnerable population to a range of adverse outcomes.
Márta Miklósi
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Opportunistic competition law enforcement [PDF]

We analyse the interplay between investigation policies, deterrence and desistance in a model where a competition authority monitors multiple sectors and faces a budget constraint that prevents it from deterring cartels in all sectors simultaneously ...
Michiel Bijlsma, Roel van Elk
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Resettlement of young people leaving custody: Lessons from the literature [PDF]

, 2013
This literature review aims to set out the research and practice evidence about effective resettlement services for children and young adults and can be used to inform future policy and practice to ensure service delivery is evidence based.
Bateman, T, Hazel, N, Wright, S
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Co- producing desistance: who works to support desistance?

, 2013
In 2003, McNeill argued that desistance research required a major shift in probation practice; a departure from practices underpinned solely by cognitive behavioural psychology focused on changing individual mindsets to practices attending to the relational and social contexts within and through which desistance occurs.
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A New Identity: Enhancing Life Skills and Work-Readiness for Those With a Sexual Offending History

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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The Importance of Family Support on the Desistance of the Ex-convicts Discharged from Prison

Ceza Hukuku ve Kriminoloji Dergisi
This study concentrates on the impact of socioeconomic and psychological support from the families of ex-convicts discharged from prison on their desistance from crime, both in prison and in the post-prison period.
Sadullah Seyidoğlu, Zahir Kızmaz
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Good practice in projects working with prisoners' families [PDF]

, 2009
The value of addressing the root causes of offending and understanding factors which encourage desistance from crime is becoming all the more apparent amongst policy makers, practitioners and academics alike.
Barry, Monica
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It's About Time: Prevention and Intervention Services for Gang-Affiliated Girls [PDF]

, 2012
Although a substantial number of girls are involved with gangs, gang prevention and intervention services are not designed with girls in mind. As Kevin Grant, a service provider working with girls in gangs, notes, "A lot of the [gang prevention and ...
Angela Wolf, Livier Gutierrez
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