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Identity and Desistance from Crime

2013
There is a contentious debate within criminology about the causes of desistance from crime. Some theories, such as Sampson and Laub’s age-graded informal social control theory assert that desistance is due to the influences of structural factors such as placement in good jobs or finding good marriage partners.
Shawn D. Bushway, Raymond Paternoster
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Encouraging Desistance from Crime

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Half of individuals released from prison in the United States will be re-incarcerated within three years, creating an incarceration cycle that is detrimental to individuals, families, and communities. There is tremendous public interest in ending this cycle, and public policies can help or hinder the reintegration of those released from jail and ...
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Therapeutic horticulture and desistance from crime

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 2022
AbstractA growing number of organisations and institutions are using sustainability and horticultural interventions in the correctional context for their supposed healing, rehabilitative or therapeutic benefits. This article thematically reviews a range of qualitative, quantitative, case study, meta‐analysis, and controlled experimental research ...
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Psychosocial Maturation, Race, and Desistance from Crime

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2019
Research on maturation and its relation to antisocial behavior has progressed appreciably in recent years. Psychosocial maturation is a relatively recent concept of development that scholarship has linked to risky behavior. Psychosocial maturation appears to be a promising explanation of the process of exiting criminal behavior, known as desistance ...
Michael Rocque, Amber L. Beckley, Alex R. Piquero   +2 more
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Sports and Tertiary Crime Prevention: Desistance from Crime

2022
This chapter reviews attempts to prevent crime at the tertiary level. The tertiary level of crime prevention entails a range of interventions within or outside the criminal justice system to prevent individuals already engaged in criminal activity from reoffending and encouraging them to desist from crime and successfully reintegrating into society ...
Yvon Dandurand, Jon Heidt
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Victimization and Desistance from Crime

Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 2019
Victimization is a negative life experience that tends to occur in the context of one’s own offending. Although a great deal of literature shows that victimization often leads to increases in criminal behavior, there are also reasons to believe that, for some offenders, victimization can serve as a turning point that marks the end of criminal careers ...
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Social structures and desistance from crime

European Journal of Criminology, 2010
Desistance studies have routinely focused on issues such as family links, employment prospects and moving away from criminal friends, but they have said less about the meso- and macro-level structural issues that might facilitate or impede the transition of ex-offenders to the status of more mainstream members of civil society.Yet, in view of the ...
Stephen Farrall, Anthony Bottoms, Joanna Shapland   +2 more
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Religiosity and desistance from crime

2019
Within French social sciences, the dialectic relationship between religiosity and criminality, ignored for a long time, has now become an object of a perceptual inversion. Considered as an important factor in inhibiting criminal activity until late 1960’s, a person’s religiosity is now viewed, inversely, as a reason that could facilitate the adoption ...
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Cohabitation, Relationship Quality, and Desistance From Crime

Journal of Marriage and Family, 2014
Although the empirical links between marriage and desistance are well established, very little is known about the degree to which cohabitation is associated with changes in criminal behavior. This is a significant oversight given that, among some segments of the population, cohabitation has become more common than marriage.
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A Peacemaking Approach to Desistance from Crime

Critical Criminology, 2018
One of the most persistent criticisms of the peacemaking perspective in criminology is that it lacks testable hypotheses and realistic policy implications. In this essay, we examine the applicability of peacemaking ideas to the mechanisms identified by scholars that are associated with desistance from crime.
Glen A. Ishoy, Nathan E. Kruis
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