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Religiously Motivated Desistance
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2014This article examines the life-history narratives of 25 successful ex-offenders professing Christianity as the source of their desistance. Unstructured in-depth life-history interviews from adult male desisters affirm use of a “feared self” and “cognitive shifts” regarding perceptions of illegal behavior.
Hallett, Michael A., McCoy, J. Stephen
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Probation Journal, 2014
Allan Weaver's autobiographical account and the corresponding analysis by Beth Weaver, is an enlightening personal account and analysis of an ex-offender and ex-prisoner turned Scottish criminal justice social worker, and an example of the value that professionals with offending and penal experiences can bring.
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Allan Weaver's autobiographical account and the corresponding analysis by Beth Weaver, is an enlightening personal account and analysis of an ex-offender and ex-prisoner turned Scottish criminal justice social worker, and an example of the value that professionals with offending and penal experiences can bring.
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2016
Using Pathways to Desistance (PtD) data, a longitudinal study of active youth offenders, the current study tests whether voluntary participation in a variety of programs – job training, mental health, and substance abuse, may be considered as a signal of an individual’s underlying intentions to desist from crime.
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Using Pathways to Desistance (PtD) data, a longitudinal study of active youth offenders, the current study tests whether voluntary participation in a variety of programs – job training, mental health, and substance abuse, may be considered as a signal of an individual’s underlying intentions to desist from crime.
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2016
The concept of “imagined desistance” accounts for the observation that all the young men who participated in this study are convinced that they won’t be rearrested after their initial stay at a detention facility. The institutional structures of juvenile justice encourage teenagers to frame their incarceration as a positive turning point, but they don ...
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The concept of “imagined desistance” accounts for the observation that all the young men who participated in this study are convinced that they won’t be rearrested after their initial stay at a detention facility. The institutional structures of juvenile justice encourage teenagers to frame their incarceration as a positive turning point, but they don ...
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Putting Desistance Research to Work: Policy and Desistance Theory
2017It has been said that research should be useful as well as used. Unfortunately, much of the work on desistance remains theoretical and largely separate from the policy world. Some researchers, in fact, have argued that major correlates of desistance (such as marriage) are not relevant to policy.
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Desistance is the process of abstaining from crime by those with a previous pattern of offending. What meaning does which incentive have for their endeavours to comply with norms? How is it achieved in the spheres of action, identity and social reintegration? What role do autonomy and recognition play in this?
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