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Understanding desistance: a critical review of theories of desistance [PDF]
Psychology, Crime and Law, 2019 Informed by a comprehensive review of theories and research into desistance (Weaver, 2015), this article advances a critical and contemporary overview of the main theories of desistance, drawing on illustrative empirical research. It begins by addressing definitional issues, prior to showing how various theories of desistance differently explain the ...
Elizabeth Weaver
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Working Through Desistance: Employment in Women’s Identity and Relational Desistance
The British Journal of Criminology, 2023 Abstract Desistance and re-entry literature has traditionally explored particular types of women’s relationships and social roles (such as maternal identities and familial relationships), while neglecting the potential for employment and work-related roles to support change.
Grace Low
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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 +3 more
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Psychosocial maturity and institutional confinement from ages 15–22: a longitudinal reciprocal model [PDF]
Frontiers in Child and Adolescent PsychiatryObjectivesPsychosocial maturity develops rapidly during adolescence and early adulthood and is closely linked to delinquency and justice system involvement.
Frances R. Chen +2 more
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Criminology, 2020 Although desistance is increasingly recognized as a series of complex processes by which individuals transform from offenders into nonoffenders, few desistance scholars have studied this process in ...
Tea Fredriksson, Robin Gålnander
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A New Identity: Enhancing Life Skills and Work-Readiness for Those With a Sexual Offending History [PDF]
Sexual OffendingThe 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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Understanding the access to and use of digital technology by people in the criminal legal system: empirical findings from Wales [PDF]
Health & JusticeBackground 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 +2 more
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Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2016 Desistance is generally presented in a positive light, with themes of ‘making good’ and generativity recurring in the literature. This article reports on two qualitative studies exploring the desistance journeys of two different groups of ex-offenders ...
Briege Nugent, Marguerite Schinkel
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Detransition and Desistance Among Previously Trans-Identified Young Adults
Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2023 Persons who have renounced a prior transgender identification, often after some degree of social and medical transition, are increasingly visible. We recruited 78 US individuals ages 18–33 years who previously identified as transgender and had stopped ...
L. Littman +3 more
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Feminist Criminology, 2023 Drawing on narrative interviews with 16 criminalized women and a year of observation at English Women’s Centers, this study explores the women’s qualitative experiences of employment and volunteering.
Úna Barr
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