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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
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The dynamics of criminal collaboration: Multiplex ties in mafia networks
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines how social embeddedness and multiplex relationships shape criminal collaboration within organized crime networks. Drawing on data from three major investigations into the ‘Ndrangheta, we analyze how kinship, clan affiliation, leadership, and prior interactions influence participation in meetings and phone calls.
Francesco Calderoni +2 more
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A new paradigm for social work with offenders? [PDF]
, 2006 In an influential article published in 1979, Bottoms and McWilliams proposed the adoption of a 'non-treatment paradigm' for social work practice with offenders.
McNeill, F.
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Learning Together: Localism, Collaboration and Reflexivity in the Development of Prison and University Learning Communities [PDF]
, 2019 This paper engages with challenges of localism, collaboration and reflexivity in thinking about the conceptualisation and development of partnership learning communities between higher education and criminal justice institutions.
Armstrong, Ruth +2 more
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Three‐quarters of US prisons offer vocational training programs, which aim to place trainees in middle‐skills jobs in specific occupational sectors post‐release. These middle‐skills jobs may more effectively reduce recidivism than the jobs that normally characterize the labor market experience of the formerly incarcerated, yet whether ...
Britte van Tiem
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Suburban Bliss or Disillusionment - Why Do Terrorists Quit?
Journal for Deradicalization, 2016 This study explores the explanatory value of two theories of desistance – the cessation of criminal behavior – in explaining why 27 individuals left the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS).
Liesbeth van der Heide, Robbert Huurman
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Higher Education and Desistance From Crime
Irish Journal of Academic PracticePrisoners are one of the most socially and economically disadvantaged groups in society, with low levels of educational attainment and involvement in higher education.
Nicola Hughes
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Imprisonment, social support, and desistance : a theoretical approach to pathways of desistance and persistence for imprisoned men [PDF]
, 2015 Desistance should be the main ground for reentry policies for imprisoned offenders. However, theories on desistance are diverse, and they disagree about the key factors related to the origin, maintenance, and failures of the desistance process.
Cid Moliné, Josep, Martí Olivé, Joel
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract We investigate how the affordances of an online context shape the processes of social learning. Using a dataset of more than 11,000 posts from the fraud subdread on the dark web forum Dread, we examine how affordances of platform governance, connectivity, anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, and limited oversight influence the components ...
Fangzhou Wang, Timothy Dickinson
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Criminal desistance in Chilean women who have been deprived of liberty
Revista Criminalidad, 2019 Diverse investigations have studied the phenomenon of criminal desistance in women, evincing characteristic factors for this population. The objective of this study was to explore a predictive model of the female criminal desistance from the psychosocial
Ricardo Pérez-Luco Arenas +2 more
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