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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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Disengaging From Gangs and Desistance From Crime
Justice Quarterly, 2012We 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 embeddedness.
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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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Social structures and desistance from crime
European Journal of Criminology, 2010Desistance 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 +2 more
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Desistance from Crime and Explanatory Style
Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 2004Research on offender verbalizations traditionally focuses on the degree to which offenders accept responsibility (or blame) for their mistakes. This small study expands this cognitive perspective in criminology by incorporating basic findings from the psychological literature on attributions.
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Transformative agency and desistance from crime
Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2012This article provides a discussion of human agency, conceptualized as a transformative aspect of desistance from crime. It is argued here that existing conceptualizations of agency are vague or underexplored, and that a framework based upon the work of Emirbayer and Mische (1998) offers a more comprehensive overview of the manner in which individuals ...
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Researches about desistance from crime
2023Cette actualité bibliographique propose un panorama des travaux sur la désistance, en puisant notamment dans la sphère anglo-saxonne. Après un rappel de la généalogie de la notion et une revue des auteurs les plus centraux, l’article explore ses principales tendances théoriques pour discuter leurs transferts potentiels dans le soutien aux processus de ...
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Masculinities, Fatherhood, and Desistance From Crime
The Journal of Men’s Studies, 2016Being male constitutes a risk factor for incarceration. However, research suggests gender may have an indirect effect on men’s criminal behaviors. This author presents the theory that men’s endorsement of masculinity ideologies in the context of parenting affects their level of investment in the fathering role and has an indirect impact on their ...
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Desistance from Crime: Past to Present
2019This chapter surveys the field of desistance from crime. Beginning with an historical overview, we trace criminological work that has studied the relationship between age and crime, bringing us up to the present landscape of desistance research. We then present critical insights from recent longitudinal studies of desistance, highlighting how the ...
Michael Rocque, Lisa Slivken
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