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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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Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2020
:The bulk of the desistance literature has focused on social/contextual factors (marriage, employment, peers) and their criminogenic consequences. Less attention has been devoted to the role of criminal justice system involvement in the desistance ...
T. Pratt, Teresa May, L. Kan
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:The bulk of the desistance literature has focused on social/contextual factors (marriage, employment, peers) and their criminogenic consequences. Less attention has been devoted to the role of criminal justice system involvement in the desistance ...
T. Pratt, Teresa May, L. Kan
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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.
Sweeten, Gary +2 more
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The Transition Towards Desistance from Crime Among Serious Juvenile Offenders: A Scoping Review
Australian Social Work, 2019Serious juvenile offenders present high recidivism rates. Much research focus on the processes of desistance from crime in adult populations. However, much less is known about the processes of desistance of adolescents.
Marie-Pierre Villeneuve +2 more
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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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Desistance from Crime of Young Offenders in Argentina: A Qualitative Study
International Criminology, 2023M. S. Orlando, D. Farrington
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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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