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Desistance from Crime and Identity
Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2016 Theories of desistance from crime have emphasized social processes like involvement in adult social bonds or prosocial social relationships to the deliberate neglect of individual subjective processes such as one’s identity. More recent theories, however, have stressed the role of identity and human agency in the desistance process. An important set of
Paternoster, Raymond +4 more
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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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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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Early Narratives of Desistance from Crime in Different Prison Regimes
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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Four forms of 'offender' rehabilitation: Towards an interdisciplinary perspective [PDF]
, 2012 This paper aims to advance the case for a more fully interdisciplinary understanding of offender rehabilitation, partly as a means of shedding light upon and moving beyond contemporary ‘paradigm conflicts’.
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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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Supporting children's resettlement ('reentry') after custody : beyond the risk paradigm [PDF]
, 2020 In response to policy concerns in England and Wales and internationally, a considerable knowledge-base has identified factors statistically associated with reduced recidivism for children leaving custody.
Bateman, T, Hazel, N
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Youth offending and youth transitions : the power of capital in influencing change [PDF]
, 2007 Neither the literature on offending nor that on desistance adequately explains the short-term nature of youth offending, young people's propensity to desist from offending as they reach early adulthood and the importance of youth transitions in helping ...
Barry, Monica
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Kriminologijos studijos, 2020 Taking together all the evidence on the aetiology, development and differential processes of delinquent behaviour from childhood to adulthood, we dispose of important new evidence from the neurosciences, which, compared to traditional criminological ...
Frieder Dünkel +3 more
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Encyclopaideia, 2019 This paper critically examines some of the research arising from prison contexts internationally, questioning the notion that adult learning might serve the purpose of rehabilitation or encouraging desistance from crime. These discussions are utilised to
Sarah Galloway
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