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Why do People Stop Offending? Recent Theories on Desistance and Their Value in Practical Approaches to Offenders

Zbornik Znanstvenih Razprav, 2015
Desistance theories, researching the ways how and reasons why people stop offending have developed only recently. The article briefly describe their development in general and then examines four of the more recent influential ones in more detail: Laub ...
Mojca M. Plesničar
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Desistance from Crime during the Transition to Adulthood: The Influence of Parents, Peers, and Shifts in Identity

Journal of research in crime and delinquency, 2019
Objectives: Research on criminal continuity and change has traditionally focused on elements of the adult life course (e.g., marriage and employment); however, recent social and economic changes suggest the need to consider a broader range of factors. In
Jennifer E. Copp, Peggy C. Giordano, Monica A. Longmore, Wendy D. Manning   +3 more
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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, Rosa Puglia, Berengère Devillers   +2 more
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Rethinking the dichotomy between libraries and prisons

Journal of New Librarianship, 2020
This piece considers the challenges of providing library services in a prison setting and offers insights from current prison library research being carried out in Northern Ireland.
Jayne Finlay
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Convict and critical criminology

Oñati 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
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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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Sex Differences in the Influence of Relationships on Adolescent Offending

Social 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, Ashley K. Fansher, Amanda Goodson   +2 more
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Gangs, mafia, organised groups in prisons: the formal and informal strategies of managing the “public enemy"

Oñati Socio-Legal Series
How does the label of “public enemy” influence the strategies of managing prisons? Using insights coming from on-the-field research conducted in different countries (mainly inside the prison for gangs in Triángulo Norte – El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
Michele Miravalle
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Juvenile detention and educational engagement: A sociocultural analysis inspired by Vygotskij

Formare
The detention of juvenile offenders poses significant risks to healthy psychosocial development and to a successful transition into adulthood, exposing an already vulnerable population to a range of adverse outcomes.
Márta Miklósi
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