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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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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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Désistance, religion et spiritualité : religion, spiritualité et processus de désistance
CriminologieLa religion et la spiritualité ont toujours occupé une place au sein de la société, variable selon les époques. Néanmoins, les recherches s’intéressant à leur place dans le processus de sortie de la délinquance sont limitées dans le champ de la ...
Lucie Pelz, Fabienne Glowacz
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Post-Release Success among Paroled Lifers
Laws, 2014 Previous research suggests that social relations, in particular the forming of family ties and employment (social factors), self-efficacy (personal factors), and therapeutic interventions (institutional factors) constitute main contributors in post ...
Marieke Liem, Jennifer Garcin
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Mineurs judiciarisés pour délit sexuel : soutien de la désistance par le Good Lives Model
Criminologie, 2020 Parmi les différentes interventions développées dans le domaine de la délinquance sexuelle, le GLM (Good Lives Model), modèle de réhabilitation humaniste et positiviste centré sur l’identification des besoins et le développement des ressources internes ...
Fabienne Glowacz +2 more
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Criminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Research summary Crime and violence continue to be problems that plague urban areas across the United States and the globe. One key approach for responding to these problems is “focused deterrence” which includes programs that prevent criminal behavior by blending criminal justice, social service, and community‐based action.
Anthony A. Braga +2 more
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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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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
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Addiction, Volume 120, Issue 4, Page 645-654, April 2025.Abstract Background and aims Within many alcohol prevention interventions, changes in alcohol‐related attitudes (ARA) are often proposed as precursors to changes in drinking behaviour. This study aimed to measure the longitudinal relationship between ARA and behaviour during the implementation of a large‐scale prevention trial.
Andrew Percy +6 more
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Faith-Based Intervention: Prison, Prayer, and Perseverance
Religions, 2018 This qualitative article explores the impact of faith-based interventions through the lens of a self-identified practicing Christian: Joanna. For over a decade, Joanna has visited several prisons in the United Kingdom in a faith-based capacity ...
Shona Robinson-Edwards, Stephanie Kewley
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