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Persistence of Problematic Sexual Behaviors in Children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The purpose of this study was to identify personal and family predictors and correlates of persistence of problematic sexual behaviors (PSB) in children.
Achenbach T. M.   +5 more
core   +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

Social Practices or Functional Skills? Rehabilitation or Rights? An Analysis of Scottish Prison Learning Contracts

open access: yesEncyclopaideia, 2019
This paper critically examines some of the research arising from prison contexts internationally, questioning the notion that adult learning might serve the purpose of rehabilitation or encouraging desistance from crime. These discussions are utilised to
Sarah Galloway
doaj   +1 more source

Working Through Desistance: Employment in Women’s Identity and Relational Desistance

open access: yesThe 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.
openaire   +2 more sources

Lead Editor\u27s Welcome, JPER Vol5#2 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Lead Editor\u27s welcome for Volume 5 ...
Behan, Cormac
core   +1 more source

Using an identity lens : constructive working with children in the criminal justice system [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Research has shown that identity, and how you feel about yourself, can be key to moving forward with life and away from crime. Working with the University of Salford, Youth Offending Teams and supported by the Barrow Cadbury Trust, this resource has been
Drummond, C   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Beyond Bandung and Belgrade: Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, A Forgotten Indian Voice for World Peace

open access: yesPeace &Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dr. Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907–1966) was an Indian polymath best known for his intellectual contributions in a dizzyingly wide range of fields: mathematics, statistics, genetics, numismatics, history, and literature. His enduring reputation seems to have been posthumously sealed as the father of Marxist historiography in India. What has
Suchintan Das
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Legitimacy and the Moral Authority to Inspect: A Qualitative Study of Probation Inspectors in England and Wales

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how probation inspectors in England and Wales construct their self‐legitimacy; the internal belief in their moral and professional right to inspect. Drawing on qualitative interviews and Bottoms and Tankebe's dialogic model of legitimacy, it shows how inspectors justify their authority through legal mandates, professional
Jake Phillips
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

Quantifying Mozambique's Peace Dividend: An Application of the Synthetic Control Method

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the synthetic control method and data from 20 African countries, this study quantifies the peace dividend in Mozambique, a country that experienced over 15 years of civil war. More specifically, we use data from 1977 to 2018 to investigate whether the end of the civil war in Mozambique in 1992 brought significant benefits to the country ...
Tendai Gwatidzo, Aldo Sitoe, Busani Moyo
wiley   +1 more source

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