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Trajectories, Transitions and Turning Points: Sports, Substance Misuse and Desistance. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Despite well-established health benefits of physical exercise (Department of Health 2004; 2010; Pang et al., 2008), sport has played relatively little part in adult alcohol and drug treatment programmes.
Landale, Sarah A, LANDALE, SARAH,A
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Counterblast: a Copernican correction for community sentences? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In this article, the author discusses the emergence and development of desistance research, which aims to examine the social and personal processes by which persistent offenders desist from crime, and argues that its implications for practice are far ...
McNeill, F.
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Should We Change the Criminal Age of Majority in England and Wales? Consideration of Young Adults Within the Youth Justice and Criminal Justice System

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Current legislation and safeguarding principles are bound by narrow and inflexible constructions of childhood and adulthood. The criminal age of responsibility in England and Wales has been criticised for the responsibilisation of children from age 10 years.
Jayne Price
wiley   +1 more source

Convict and critical criminology

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series
This paper examines critical issues that arose during an innovative educational initiative directed at inmate students, offering both a reflective analysis of prison living conditions and the acquisition of methodological tools useful for prison research.
Elton Kalica
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring Prison Safety: Insights From Two Decades of HM Inspectorate of Prisons Surveys in England and Wales

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents an analysis of surveys conducted by HM Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales of 87,449 adult male prisoners between the years 2000 and 2020. It describes the survey methodology and focuses on the 13,025 people who reported feeling unsafe.
Nicholas Hardwick   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper reviews what is known about ethnic identity and the processes by which people cease offending. Whilst the past 30 years have seen dramatic growth in what is known about desistance, in many jurisdictions, there is a paucity of research which ...
Sharma, Kanupriya   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Faith-Based Intervention: Prison, Prayer, and Perseverance

open access: yesReligions, 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
doaj   +1 more source

The 6‐Form Model of Re/Integration: From Prison to Community

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In spite of a substantial rise in academic, policy and research interest in life after prison worldwide, people often face acute, compounded and permanent adversities on release. Despite this growing interest, our knowledge on re/integration and life after prison remains limited, and we lack a thorough and in‐depth conceptualisation of what re/
Alejandro Rubio‐Arnal
wiley   +1 more source

Sex Differences in the Influence of Relationships on Adolescent Offending

open access: yesSocial Sciences
The impact of romantic relationships during the adolescent period has received significantly less attention in the literature compared to the influence of romantic relationships during adulthood.
Sara Zedaker   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘You Can't Blame the System for It All, but Systemically, They're Setting Them up to Fail’: The Criminal Justice System as a Barrier to Women's Employment and Desistance

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the criminal justice system and related policies and practices can create gendered socio‐structural constraints that limit women's pathways toward employment, as well as their hopes or expectations of obtaining it. Through qualitative interviews with women with lived experience of the justice system, employers who ...
Grace Low, Pete Harris
wiley   +1 more source

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