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, 2017 This book represents a brief treatise on the theory and research behind the concept of desistance from crime. This ever-growing field has become increasingly relevant as questions of serious issues regarding sentencing, probation and the penal system ...
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Disengaging From Gangs and Desistance From Crime
Justice Quarterly, 2013 We study the relationship between disengagement from gangs and desistance from crime within a life-course criminological framework. Gang disengagement is conceptualized as the event of gang membership de-identification and the process of declining gang ...
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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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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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Identity and Desistance from Crime
2013There 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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Therapeutic horticulture and desistance from crime
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 2022AbstractA 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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Encouraging Desistance from Crime
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020Half 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
2022This 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, 2019Victimization 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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Religiosity and desistance from crime
2019Within 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, 2014Although 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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