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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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A Peacemaking Approach to Desistance from Crime
Critical Criminology, 2018One 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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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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On the Existential Aspects of Desistance from Crime
Symbolic Interaction, 2005This article seeks to introduce several core insights of existential thought and existential sociology to study why people desist from crime (stop offending). By investigating the internal processes associated with desistance, existential sociology can contribute to our theoretical understanding of this phenomenon.
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Detention and desistance from crime
Journal of Criminal Justice, 1999Brandon K Applegate +2 more
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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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