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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. A unifying framework can distinguish termination of offending from the process of desistance.
Laub, John, Sampson, Robert
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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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Higher Education and Desistance From Crime [PDF]
Irish Journal of Academic Practice, 2021 Prisoners 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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Starting to Stop: Young Offenders' Desistance from Crime [PDF]
Youth Justice, 2017 This paper explores the complexities of the interplay between structural and agentic changes in 21 young offenders' lives as they start to stop offending.
Ahmed E +27 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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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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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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The Educative Role of Social Reintegration Programs on Desistance from Crime [PDF]
Research and Education, 2022 Social reintegration programs carried out within probation services are an important factor contributing to desistance from crime. A large number of people in the records of these services have the obligation to participate in at least one such program ...
Laura-Julia Koblicska
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