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Being a ‘good woman’: Stigma, relationships and desistance

Probation Journal, 2021
This article critiques the focus on responsibilisation of criminalised women within desistance research, policy and practice, through the neglect of the structural conditions surrounding women’s criminalisation and victimisation. The concept of the ‘good
Natalie Rutter, Úna Barr
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Changes in Personal Social Networks across Individuals Leaving Their Street Gang: Just What Are Youth Leaving Behind?

Social Sciences, 2021
Despite a small but growing literature on gang disengagement and desistance, little is known about how social networks and changes in networks correspond to self-reported changes in street gang membership over time.
Caterina G. Roman, Meagan Cahill, Lauren R. Mayes   +2 more
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Desistance from Sexual Offending or Not Reoffending? A Taxonomy of Contact Sex Offenders

Journal of Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society, 2022
This paper explored why contact sex offenders lack reoffending, and a taxonomy was developed to better understand the desistance process, or more commonly, the non-reoffending process.
Brooke N. Cooley
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Rejecting and retaining aspects of selfhood: Constructing desistance from abuse as a ‘masculine’ endeavour

Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2022
Evaluative studies of men who have attended domestic violence perpetrator programmes have, thus far, paid attention to the question of what they are expected to desist from. This is entirely appropriate. However, the question of what they are expected to
D. Morran
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Récits de désistance de jeunes radicalisés et impliqués dans des activités de groupes terroristes

Criminologie, 2020
À la suite des attentats qu’ont connus plusieurs pays d’Europe, la déradicalisation et le désengagement sont des concepts qui ont été fortement mobilisés et questionnés afin d’orienter les interventions à mener. Celui de la désistance l’a moins été alors
Fabienne Glowacz
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Desistance from Crime among Chinese Delinquents: The Integrated Effects of Family Bonding, Prosocial Models, and Religious Bonding

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
Desistance from crime is a popular topic in global criminological research; however, few studies have focused on desistance among delinquent youth, particularly in non-Western societies.
G. W. Y. Au, Dennis S. W. Wong
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Desistance from criminalisation: police culture and new directions in drugs policing

, 2021
Globally, there is emerging evidence that drugs policing is moving away from traditional enforcement interventions towards a greater focus on harm reduction.
Matthew Bacon
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The gendered weight of desistance and understanding the ‘love of a good woman’: Desistance emotional work (DEW)

Probation Journal, 2022
Despite increasing academic focus on intimate relationships as positive influences on desistance, research has yet to examine the experience and impact of support provision for women who are intimate partners of desisters. This exploratory study draws on
Lauren Hall, Lyndsey Harris
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Co-producing Desistance Opportunities with Women in Prison: Reflections of a Sports Coach Developer

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, 2022
The following paper provides a sport coach developer’s refl ective narrative account of his fi rst experience of delivering a football-based development programme within a women’s prison. The account highlights the notion that initial ‘up-front’ desistance
C. Kay, Carolynne Mason, Tom Hartley
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Criminal Desistance Narratives of Young People in the West of Scotland: Understanding Spirituality and Criminogenic Constraints

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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