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Desistance From Crime

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 2007
In recent years, the growing literature on the topic of desistance from crime and deviant behavior has generated a large body of knowledge on this dimension of the criminal career. Despite these efforts, it has been suggested that our understanding of the processes underlying desistance remains limited. The objective of the current article is to offer
Lila Kazemian
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Desistance from Crime

2014
Most offenders, even persistent offenders, eventually desist from crime; and to a significant extent they do this on their own initiative. To the legendary visitor from Mars, these simple facts – and they are facts – might seem to offer huge hope to earth-bound criminal justice systems.
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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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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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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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   +2 more
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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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