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Early Narratives of Desistance from Crime in Different Prison Regimes [PDF]
European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 2019 Priority given to investigating the onset and maintenance of criminal behavior in the past is currently giving way to a new focus on the process of criminal desistance.
Ana M. Martín +2 more
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Higher Education and Desistance From Crime
Irish Journal of Academic Practice, 2021 Prisoners are one of the most socially and economically disadvantaged groups in society, with low levels of educational attainment and involvement in higher education.
Nicola Hughes
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Starting to Stop: Young Offenders’ Desistance from Crime [PDF]
Youth Justice, 2017 This article explores the complexities of the interplay between structural and agentic changes in 21 young offenders’ lives as they start to stop offending. The young people’s ability to desist from crime was dependent upon their engagement with a ‘hook for change’, their development of prosocial relationships and ‘knifing off’ of elements of their ...
McMahon, Gráinne, Jump, Deborah
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Desistance from crime and restorative justice [PDF]
Restorative Justice, 2016 Over the last twenty years, research on desistance from crime and on restorative justice has grown rapidly and both have emerged as exciting, vibrant, and dynamic areas of contemporary criminological interest. While the implementation of restorative justice practices in Europe has been essentially victim-oriented, there has always also been an emphasis
Bart Claes, Joanna Shapland
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Drug treatment and desistance from crime [PDF]
This project examined desistance from crime for drug-using offenders, and explored the apparent disjuncture between what is known about desistance from crime and the work that is done with offenders in the criminal justice system. The project concentrated on three central theoretical ideas: first, the impact of social bonds on the process of desistance;
Robinson, Garreth
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, 2023 One of the primary concerns employers hold about hiring an ex-offender is the potential reoffending risk they pose. However, criminological literature shows that an ex-offender may be able to mitigate employers’ concerns by signalling their desistance ...
Suzanne E Reich, Reich, Suzanne E
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The Educative Role of Social Reintegration Programs on Desistance from Crime [PDF]
Research and Education, 2022 Social reintegration programs carried out within probation services are an important factor contributing to desistance from crime. A large number of people in the records of these services have the obligation to participate in at least one such program ...
Laura-Julia Koblicska
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 Mental health problems are common among young offenders but their role in predicting criminal recidivism is still not clear. Early identification and treatment of young offenders at risk of serious, violent, and chronic (SVC) offending is of major ...
Steffen Barra +6 more
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Religions, 2018 In our qualitative study of urban youth living in the West of Scotland, we argue that religion and spirituality give personal sustenance and hope from which a process of desistance can emerge. Religious worship offers a ‘site’ for undermining reoffending
Chris Holligan, Robert McLean
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Set up to fail: The politics, mechanisms, and effects of mass incarceration
Latin American Law Review, 2021 The rise of the citizen security paradigm has complemented, rather than curtailed, authoritarian legacies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Notably, criminal justice and law enforcement policies continue to feed a wave of mass incarceration, evidenced
Adrian Bergmann, Rafael Gude
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