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Desistance by design : offenders' reflections on criminal justice theory, policy and practice [PDF]
, 2013 This article highlights the views and advice of offenders in Scotland about what helps and hinders young people generally in the process of desistance, why interventions may or may not encourage desistance and what criminal justice and other agencies can
Barry, Monica
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Penal Cultures and Female Desistance
, 2017 This book makes a unique contribution to the internationalisation of criminological knowledge about gender and desistance through a qualitative cross-national exploration of the female route out of crime in Sweden and England.
Österman, Linnéa
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Desistance, reflexivity and relationality : a case study [PDF]
, 2013 This paper presents the analysis of a single life-story drawn from a larger study examining theindividual, relational and structural contributions to the desistance process.
Weaver, Beth
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Drug treatment and desistance from crime [PDF]
This project examined desistance from crime for drug-using offenders, and explored the apparent disjuncture between what is known about desistance from crime and the work that is done with offenders in the criminal justice system.
Robinson, Garreth
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Religions, 2018 In our qualitative study of urban youth living in the West of Scotland, we argue that religion and spirituality give personal sustenance and hope from which a process of desistance can emerge. Religious worship offers a ‘site’ for undermining reoffending
Chris Holligan, Robert McLean
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 Abstract Despite a growth in desistance research, our understanding of how local external factors may affect the desistance process as people transition from prison to society remains limited. Drawing on qualitative data from two neighbourhoods in Northern Ireland, it is argued that subcultural factors in neighbourhoods can play a key ...
Shane Bell +2 more
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“Recovery Came First”: Desistance versus Recovery in the Criminal Careers of Drug-Using Offenders
The Scientific World Journal, 2012 The aim of our paper is to gain insight in the desistance process of drug-using offenders. We explore the components of change in the desistance process of drug-using offenders by using the cognitive transformation theory of Giordano et al.
Charlotte Colman, Freya Vander Laenen
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Early Narratives of Desistance from Crime in Different Prison Regimes
European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 2019 Priority given to investigating the onset and maintenance of criminal behavior in the past is currently giving way to a new focus on the process of criminal desistance.
Ana M. Martín +2 more
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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.
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Forensic Outpatient Variables That May Help to Prevent Further Detention
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 BackgroundForensic outpatient treatment in Germany helps forensic patients back into society while managing the risk that these individuals present to public safety.
Karoline Klinger +4 more
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