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2022
Gang desistance refers to the cessation of gang activities and disentanglement from gang identity. Despite the widespread myths concerning an inability to leave a gang without severe consequences, most individuals will desist from gang activities in a passive manner.
Christian L. Bolden, Anna Q. Iliff
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Gang desistance refers to the cessation of gang activities and disentanglement from gang identity. Despite the widespread myths concerning an inability to leave a gang without severe consequences, most individuals will desist from gang activities in a passive manner.
Christian L. Bolden, Anna Q. Iliff
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Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2014
The law can be a systemically induced decision point for offenders and can act to help or hinder desistance. Desistance can be described as a change process that may be initiated by decisive momentum, supported by intervention, and maintained through re-entry, culminating in a citizen with full rights and responsibilities.
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The law can be a systemically induced decision point for offenders and can act to help or hinder desistance. Desistance can be described as a change process that may be initiated by decisive momentum, supported by intervention, and maintained through re-entry, culminating in a citizen with full rights and responsibilities.
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2009
In the field of criminology, desistance is generally defined as the cessation of offending or other antisocial behavior. However, researchers have not reached a consensus on the definition of desistance. Various authors have pointed out the shortcomings of a dichotomous definition of desistance, and some have suggested instead that a process view of ...
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In the field of criminology, desistance is generally defined as the cessation of offending or other antisocial behavior. However, researchers have not reached a consensus on the definition of desistance. Various authors have pointed out the shortcomings of a dichotomous definition of desistance, and some have suggested instead that a process view of ...
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Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, 2021
ABSTRACT Situates the reception of The Resisting Reader in context of my own experience with feminism in the academy and conducts a close reading of a racial slur that troubles the book and its reception today.
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ABSTRACT Situates the reception of The Resisting Reader in context of my own experience with feminism in the academy and conducts a close reading of a racial slur that troubles the book and its reception today.
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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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