Desistance from crime following substance use treatment: the role of treatment retention, social network and self-control [PDF]
BMC Psychiatry, 2021 Background Reductions in crime are often reported following substance use treatment. We explore the relationship between desistance from crime, treatment type, treatment retention and positive changes in known risk factors for crime. Methods We used data
Ingeborg Skjærvø +3 more
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Supporting desistance from crime and recovery from drug use with a patient-facing bidirectional eHealth tool: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case ReportsBackground Simultaneous exit from both drug use and a criminal organization is a difficult and potentially dangerous process for the individual. Case presentation This case report describes the use of the eHealth tool Previct Drugs to support a 27-year ...
Shoresh Palanijafi +2 more
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Beyond the record: aligning policy intentions with employment outcomes [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis policy brief examines the consequences of criminal records, with emphasis on employability research, employment initiatives, and reform recommendations.
Cody Normitta Porter +3 more
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Understanding the access to and use of digital technology by people in the criminal legal system: empirical findings from Wales [PDF]
Health & JusticeBackground There is growing recognition of digital technology's role in supporting desistance and improving the well-being and social inclusion of people in the criminal legal system (CLS).
Gemma Morgan +2 more
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Desistance from Crime and Identity
Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2016 Theories of desistance from crime have emphasized social processes like involvement in adult social bonds or prosocial social relationships to the deliberate neglect of individual subjective processes such as one’s identity. More recent theories, however, have stressed the role of identity and human agency in the desistance process. An important set of
Raymond Paternoster +2 more
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Age and crime: Empirical and theoretical approaches of criminal adult onset [PDF]
Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza, 2023 According to the age-crime curve, prevalence in crime displays an increase over the period from the late childhood to adolescence, a peak towards the end of adolescence and a downward trend afterwards during adulthood.
Kontopoulou E.
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«Alt er jo egeninnsats» – Kvinners vendepunkter bort fra kriminalitet
Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab, 2021 Research has emphasised the importance of turning points in desistance from crime. The current study investigates turning points in women’s desistance. Turning points from offending were explored through life story interviews with 20 female ex-offenders.
Katharina Gjeruldsen, Egil Jensen
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Social Sciences, 2021 Despite a small but growing literature on gang disengagement and desistance, little is known about how social networks and changes in networks correspond to self-reported changes in street gang membership over time.
Caterina G. Roman +2 more
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Understanding Desistance from Crime [PDF]
Crime and Justice, 2001 The study of desistance from crime is hampered by definitional, measurement, and theoretical incoherence.
John H. Laub, Robert J. Sampson
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The Prisons of Democracy. Experiences of Prison Management in Contemporary Argentina
Kriminologie - Das Online-Journal, 2023 The article presents a set of dissimilar experiences and a diversity of state responses in prison matters since the recovery of democracy in Argentina, based on the identification of three relevant moments: the first, marked by the search for a ...
Andrea Lombraña +2 more
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